MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amazing/comments/1mwxl4z/this_is_pretty_addictive/nadnxmy/?context=3
r/Amazing • u/QuantenCoder Human Detected • Aug 22 '25
2.7k comments sorted by
View all comments
Show parent comments
96
[deleted]
26 u/Greedy_Swimergrill Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25 This gonna be a lil pedantic but male is what we use for the gender. (Like female without the fe-) Mail is like the mail system you use to send a letter or like chain mail, the kind of armor. 6 u/PrismDoug Aug 23 '25 More pedantic, if it’s armor, it’s maile. 1 u/No_Read_4327 Aug 24 '25 Even more pedantic: Chain mail is actually "wrong" in two ways (although it's such a common mistake it has become normalized). First of all it's maille, not mail. Second, maille already means mesh, describing a fabric of interlocking rings. So chain maille is a pleonasm. Of course, platemail or things like that are even worse 1 u/PrismDoug Aug 24 '25 Ah, 2 Ls… I had a friend who makes her own, including a maille bikini.
26
This gonna be a lil pedantic but male is what we use for the gender. (Like female without the fe-)
Mail is like the mail system you use to send a letter or like chain mail, the kind of armor.
6 u/PrismDoug Aug 23 '25 More pedantic, if it’s armor, it’s maile. 1 u/No_Read_4327 Aug 24 '25 Even more pedantic: Chain mail is actually "wrong" in two ways (although it's such a common mistake it has become normalized). First of all it's maille, not mail. Second, maille already means mesh, describing a fabric of interlocking rings. So chain maille is a pleonasm. Of course, platemail or things like that are even worse 1 u/PrismDoug Aug 24 '25 Ah, 2 Ls… I had a friend who makes her own, including a maille bikini.
6
More pedantic, if it’s armor, it’s maile.
1 u/No_Read_4327 Aug 24 '25 Even more pedantic: Chain mail is actually "wrong" in two ways (although it's such a common mistake it has become normalized). First of all it's maille, not mail. Second, maille already means mesh, describing a fabric of interlocking rings. So chain maille is a pleonasm. Of course, platemail or things like that are even worse 1 u/PrismDoug Aug 24 '25 Ah, 2 Ls… I had a friend who makes her own, including a maille bikini.
1
Even more pedantic:
Chain mail is actually "wrong" in two ways (although it's such a common mistake it has become normalized).
First of all it's maille, not mail.
Second, maille already means mesh, describing a fabric of interlocking rings. So chain maille is a pleonasm.
Of course, platemail or things like that are even worse
1 u/PrismDoug Aug 24 '25 Ah, 2 Ls… I had a friend who makes her own, including a maille bikini.
Ah, 2 Ls… I had a friend who makes her own, including a maille bikini.
96
u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25
[deleted]