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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:47:36 +1100
Subject: Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <54ceda0b$0$12977$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>  Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> What is the plural of octopus?
>
> It's a trick question.  Octopus is already plural.  Monopus is singular.

People is already plural, too, but you can talk about all the peoples
of the world. Also, I can use "people" as the subject and "is" as the
verb, just to completely destroy any chance of a simple grammar parser
being able to cope with English.

ChrisA