Hey. You. Fill in the blank.

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• barttier@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …of them.

  I said the last sentence two times for emphasis.

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  • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That doubling rate is worrying

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• JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here is the source, by the way.

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I sat here, for like 5 minutes, saying wugs out loud trying to figure out the joke before I clicked through to the comments and saw this lol

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    • BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You silly goose! The plural or wug is wagon.

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  • MisterChief@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you, I was confused.

    I immediately went to “now there are two wug wugs”.

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• nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wugen

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  • SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many much MOOSEN

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are two wug

  Because wug are like moose.

  Unless it’s weg, like goose and geese.

  Also, I’m kinda cheating because I’ve seen this before. The first time I saw it, I said wugs, which is exactly the point of the test.

  If you ever get a chance, take a look at the other parts of the test. There’s multiple places where the kind of exceptions I used above would be available, but (and this is part of the point) the age of person the test was meant for wouldn’t have been exposed to those exceptions yet. And those exceptions are exceptions, which even adults don’t always think of when faced with this kind of thing. Like I said, my first thought when I initially saw this back in the day was “wugs”, not any of the exceptions you’d think of given time. And I play word games where that kind of thing matters.

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  • virku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like to think that my English is quite good, but this one threw me off. Am I supposed to understand from the name wug that the plural of wug is not wugs?

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    • zaphod@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a nonsense word, there’s no right or wrong plural for it, most will say wugs, just like you did and that’s the entire point of this test.

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    • offbyone@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Given this link, the expected response is ‘wugs’.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s one of the interesting things about language. It’s all just sounds that we agree represent ideas.

      But, because language use is such an intrinsic part of our brains, the rules around language are picked up much faster than we realize. This test is generally done with very young children that haven’t had much (if any) grammat traint. They just pick you that adding s to the end of a noun means that there are multiple of if. They’ll use that rule even when the noun is nonsense.

      But that rule is arbitrary to an extent. We could collectively agree that adding k at the end means plural. It doesn’t even have to be at the end, it could be anywhere in the word.

      Some words don’t follow the normal rules. Like mouse, and mice when talking about the animals. Or the exceptions I mentioned earlier.

      If we apply those exceptions to a nonsense noun like wug, it is no more or less “right” than adding s. But the test is about showing how language develops, not how a given language functions.

      English is an odd language sometimes though. We borrow words from other languages, sometimes adopting the grammar and rules, sometimes not. But English is built on multiple older languages to begin with, so the rules it has can be mind boggling.

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• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wüge

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• Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Friends.

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• rynzcycle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wuggles.
  Done, what do I win?

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  • JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    1,000,000 wuggles.

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    • MrGerrit@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How much is that in schmeckles?

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• JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would love to see how you all handle this one: “This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.”

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  • WhatASave@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A Quirk Dog!

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• zaphod@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s wug, but you pronounce it like weeg.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wugii

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• Tigbitties@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wug wugs

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• walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wags, there are two wags

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• Kinten@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Clearly it’s wugi

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• SamB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are two weg.

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• dipshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  poots

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• Wander@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wugodes

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• Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wugov

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