Numberplate

but currently sorned.

 

Don't tell me, it's installed on a chop.

 

isto is the singular of isti
ista is the singular of iste

 

Assuming, of course, we're talking about the Italian language, of which
I'm not convinced the word "cherished-plate-isto" is a part.

 

in "english", "pannini's for u" is a "legitimate plural form".

 

your argument is that made-up words should have made-up rules of grammar,
then?

 

No, my argument is that imported words might as well follow the grammar
of the language to which they've been imported. In this case, the
singular would be '-ist', plural '-ists', with '-isti' being no more
than an affectation. Cf. the discussion in another thread about the
plural of 'panini' when used in English.

If you're worried about the grammar of the donor language, do you do the
accent as well?

 

dog has his own "special" accent.

 

The singular of `isti' is `ista', as is the singular of `iste'.

 

my accent gradually becomes assimilated to wherever i live. i've lived in
quite a few places.

kind of the opposite to you: the longer you spend in london the less
comprehensible to londoners you seem to become

 

rubbish. You've always sounded (and looked) like a serial-killer.

 

damn, you're right, i retract it.

 

What, like everybody else?

 

well, no; you just look like a pedo, not a full-on sociopath.

 

Fank yoo.

 

He's a foot-fetishist?

 

didn't i apologise for this already? no need to keel-haul me over it.

 

you're thinking of podis, I think.

 

It takes one to know one.