contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-25 months agoA cool guide collective Nouns for animal groupslemmy.caimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareLemminary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoI love you, English as my second language, but you cray cray and I ain’t doing all of that.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoYeah all of these can be replaced with “group” with no loss in specificity.
minus-squarefiercekitten@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoPretty much. There’s no need to learn all these terms. When in doubt, just call the animal group a group. No one is going to care otherwise.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoDon’t worry, virtually no first-language English speakers do either
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoAbout the only one of those I use (besides the regular ones like ‘a flock of birds’) is ‘a murder of crows’. Usually in a statement like “We just witnessed a murder.”
I love you, English as my second language, but you cray cray and I ain’t doing all of that.
Yeah all of these can be replaced with “group” with no loss in specificity.
Pretty much. There’s no need to learn all these terms. When in doubt, just call the animal group a group. No one is going to care otherwise.
Don’t worry, virtually no first-language English speakers do either
About the only one of those I use (besides the regular ones like ‘a flock of birds’) is ‘a murder of crows’. Usually in a statement like “We just witnessed a murder.”