Sunday, 30 January 2011

Mouse is.. just... confusing!

In my last bel class we talked about singularplural-rules. And then we came across this cofussion:


MOUSE and COMPUTER MOUSE
so what do u think? usually the plural for mouse is mice right? then what about computer mouse? is it computer mice? or computer mouses?
hmmmm. i need an english expert! i dont even know what's da answer. hehehe are u thinking what im thinking? :DD YEAH LETS GOOGLE IT!
OKAY, so based on da internet:
  • some said usually computer companies use 'mouse devices' to avoid this sticky arguments.
  • some also said using computer mice is alright.
  • another some said the acronym for mouse is "manually-operated-user- select-equipment" it should be pluralised as 'mouses'
right.. so da conclusion is this word: mouse makes people go bananas! lol :P
check this out:

Wiki(i know wiki cant be trusted but hey, they still got a point)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(computing)#Naming

and check this as well, (people arguing about it and read it till da end okay? because im sure u'll get confused as i am hehe :D)http://painintheenglish.com/?p=534

But in my opinion it would be 'mouses' coz what i mean by mouses is devices, not real mouse/mice. but mice is fine somehow as long as people know what we mean. Plus we havent got any official ruling aite, thus use any!(errr..i guess) hehehe.

1 comment:

  1. yeah, i do get confused as well. but i rather use mouse devices if i want to refer to a plural form of that device. so that no one will get confused and start to debate like what happened in today's class. LOL
    btw yeah, wikipedia is not really reliable, but they do have points and it is ok for us to accept those as well right?

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