With the period, though? Clearly indicating it's an abbreviation, and not the plural of the word "bro"?
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Do you get the pun in the name "Contra Hard Corps"?
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With the period, though? Clearly indicating it's an abbreviation, and not the plural of the word "bro"?
Haha sorry I knew about corps = core as a French word but for me my brain sees corps and says corps with the hard p. Most likely due to not being American and hence not really knowing how Marine Corps is intended to be said. I honestly thought it was Marine Corps with the pronounced hard p.
I see you never grew up in the 90's. Bros. being shorthand for brothers is obvious but slang is slang for a reason.
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I'm French and I know corps is used in the army (I use to be there for some time). But I read it "corpse" in English because I thought it was also an English word. I guess I learnt something today!
It wasn't in Bog's post, though.
It's a reference to the thread we had about the pronunciation of the title Super Mario Bros., which is not a sentence.
Obviously the word "bros," plural for bro, could be found at the end of a sentence. That's not what anyone is talking about here.
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It could be. there are plenty of games with declarative sentences as titles, like "No one can stop Mr. Domino!" or "I have no mouth and I must scream."
Where's the predicate in "Super Mario Bros."? Is "bros" a verb, like after the game is done, Super Mario will have broed? Or perhaps Super Mario bros on a recurring basis.
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You don't always need a predicate, hence "a statement sentence." Example, "Do all sentences need a predicate? No."
"No." is a declarative statement that is a full sentence without a predicate.
So, just to be clear, you're saying that the title for the game Super Mario Bros. does not contain the common abbreviation for "brothers," but instead the period indicates that the title is meant to be read as a complete sentence?
I feel like I just got dumber, having read that. This is way worse reasoning than even anything anyone said in the original thread. How would you explain the period in Super Mario Bros. 2? Or Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? You know what, forget it, I don't even want to know, you have to be trolling.
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I'm saying that calling someone an idiot for knowing that an alternative reading of the title that is grammatically correct is harsh. One very well could read it as "Super Mario Bro (plural)" and make a grammatically sound argument.
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2 and ultimate in this case would be subtitles to the original title, which is a declarative sentence.
I believe the term for that is a pro-sentence, wherein the subject is omitted.
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"Who just said 'no' in the above sentence? Krejlooc."
"Krejlooc." is a full sentence that is without a predicate. "Super Mario Bros." could be interpreted as a similar response to an implied question.
So you're not saying what you actually believe, you're just making up some bonkers explanation that you think some other person could potentially theoretically believe, despite exactly zero people in the original thread every saying anything even remotely like "I thought the period is because it was a complete sentence"?
Okay, good to know, I won't bother interacting with you further.
TIL (as an European)
/edit: To be fair, English is the absolute worst language when it comes to stuff like that.
"Let's just use the French word and pronounce it exactly like they do, completely ignoring how we would usually pronounce a word written like that in our own language."
/edit: To be fair, English is the absolute worst language when it comes to stuff like that.
"Let's just use the French word and pronounce it exactly like they do, completely ignoring how we would usually pronounce a word written like that in our own language."
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I'm saying that reading "Super Mario Bros." as the plural of "bro" is grammatically correct in certain contexts.
Even worse still....he doesn't even say "corpse." At least what i'm hearing him say is, "Contra: Hard Cops"
Also, he refers to "Super" as being a suffix...when really it would be a prefix. After all, it's not Castlevania IV Super.
Also, he refers to "Super" as being a suffix...when really it would be a prefix. After all, it's not Castlevania IV Super.
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Pretty sure Splash Wave is made in Spain.
EDIT: Just looked it up, actually it's Amsterdam.
It always bothered me that in DC Universe Online they pronounce Lex Corp as Lex Core.
Like, I dunno if the game uses a different back story or whatever, but Lex Corp refers to Lex Luthor's corporation in the comics and animated series.
I felt like the voice directors were over correcting for the common mistake of reading marine corps as corpse. Maybe they encountered people like those in this thread who act as though this unintuitive linguistic quirk is an obvious thing everyone should just know.
Even if a bunch of posts are like that though, I'm sure a few people are gonna actually find out about the pronunciation specifically because you made this thread. So good job.
When I was a kid I thought it was Corps and didn't get it but then I did get it as an adult after hearing enough people pronounce 'corps', it doesn't really come up in conversation v often, but had a period where I doubted it because I had a sudden random bout of idiocy thinking it was short for corporals or something and was convinced on that so it went back to Corps... but it's clearly meant to be 'Core'.
I get it, I get the joke. Also, what a metal as fuck ost. Right up there with Thunder Force:
I get it, I get the joke. Also, what a metal as fuck ost. Right up there with Thunder Force:
one of my biggest pet peeves is when people mess this up in TV shows
like every time I hear somebody in a DC superhero show talk about "Lex Core" or "Luthor Core" it drives me up the wall
As opposed to english natives, no, I didnt know that. I always thought it was supposed to be prononced "corpse" and not "core" as the latter sounds the same as in French.
In my experience, 'core' is an Americanised pronunciation , but in UK it's usually 'corpse'. Yes, both are correct for all the people piling on the OP.
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I've always pronounced "corps" as "core" in contra hard corps, my dad was in the military.
To be honest, my english is pretty good but I never realised this. In Dutch, 'Corps' is almost spelled the same ('Korps') but pronounced something more like 'corpse'.
I do find it funny that Contra means 'against'. So the the game is against hardcore? I mean, I don't have much with the music style myself (more of a metal guy), what does is meannnnn.
I do find it funny that Contra means 'against'. So the the game is against hardcore? I mean, I don't have much with the music style myself (more of a metal guy), what does is meannnnn.
We had Probotector. Splash Wave also did. We tend to say Corps. As its how its pronounced regarding police and military.
