Recently when following a link to Wikipedia, there in the text my reading was interrupted by a word that just looks ugly: "possesses". I find it a massively disturbing eyesore. Can I complain somewhere for that word to be changed?
Recently when following a link to Wikipedia, there in the text my reading was interrupted by a word that just looks ugly: "possesses". I find it a massively disturbing eyesore. Can I complain somewhere for that word to be changed?
7 Comments
fubo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
P is a letter.
PO is a river in Italy.
POS is a store checkout computer, especially a crappy one.
POSS is a nickname for "opossum".
POSSE is a gang authorized by the sheriff.
POSSES are two or more of them.
POSSESS is what a property owner or a ghost does.
DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 3y
Yes i get that. And adding the -es makes it 3^rd^ person present. But could we just add a bit of haptic structure to it, perhaps "pottesses"? You see, fewer s-es and more upward pointing letters already makes it bearable.
fubo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I'm sure there's someone out there who thinks that a "pottess" is a feminine "potter".
TaleOfSam@rammy.site · 4 pts · 3y
Honestly, I’d take it up with the English, on account of it being their language (with a healthy dose of shame being thrown at the French).
clueless_stoner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
yokonzo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Probably not
GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
It looks like Gollum trying to say posses.