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I fwish I knew the answer to that question

a group of fish is a school
what is a group of niggers?

>>314240
Cattle?

>>314240
A hood

>>314240
future doctors and engineers

>>314240
A troop

>>314234 (OP) 
Bovine collagen can contain prion contaminants.

Seriously, OP? Fish live in water, that's the answer. The same medium for "breathing with" and "excreting to". Salty water sometimes, but always especially troublesome for farming fish in any  relatively small container. Filtering water in real time is costly. Low density of grown produce is unprofitable. Use your head.

>>314240
A septic tank.

>>314268
And was that supposed to be an eel in OP's pic? I never heard of  that alternate spelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel#Etymology

>>314240
a shrewdness
>The collective noun for apes is "shrewdness." The Old English word "shrewd," originally meaning "wicked" or "mischievous," is the root of what we now use to describe a group of apes, likely referencing their high level of intelligence and problem-solving abilities.
>likely referencing their high level of intelligence and problem-solving abilities.
>etymology is literally wicked or depraved
lol no, has nothing to do with the word, faggot ass author

source: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/what-is-a-group-of-apes-called.htm

>>314489
That reminds me of some list I saved long ago. Too strange for my ESL sensibilities.
>A murder of crows, a pride of lions, a skulk of foxes, a parliament of owls, a gaggle of geese, a rafter of turkeys, a knot of frogs, an ostentation of peacocks.

>>314490
>murder
crows used to eat the dead fallen soldiers and would simulate their screams so pagans thought they carried the souls to the afterlife
>pride
Lions and cats in general cannot be tamed and want to be catered to. 
>foxes
Are sneaky, they sneak around, skulking means basiscally sneaking. 
>parliament
Literally means assembly, but also discussion, and owls hoot to one another. They seem to say 'who' so it is like they are talking. 
>gaggle
Old Norse gagl  means small goose
>rafter
I assume they liked to hop of the roof as roosters do and chickens can't even fly so a turkey would be up there more often than a rooster, but IDK. 
>knot
wut?
>ostentation
Means ambitious display. The birds dance with those nice feathers to attract the females so it makes sense.

The frog is just weird. Oh wait, a frog in the throat.  A knot in the throat. I think I get it now.

>>314492
Too poetic for my tastes. Why is a generic group not enough? Looks like something used to torment kids in school and nothing else. I'm too autistic to understand why there is poetry in the first place, so don't mind me.

>>314497
This is madness.
https://everything-everywhere.com/collective-nouns-for-animals/

>>314503
Medieval purity spiraling regarding language and manners. A literal luxury to indulge in just to demonstrate arbitrary superiority, not for practical reasons as claimed in that link.
What makes that different from the internet jargon of today, lol?

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>>314490
what fucking medieval autist decided that you need specific words for animal groups
btw if you always have to say "a [BLANK] of [ANIMAL]" then it completely defeats the purpose of coming up with that jargon since you are basically always explaining what it means and at that point simply saying "a group of [ANIMAL]" is both less verbose and more understandable, plus it implies that even native speakers aren't fully familiar with all this
so yea, retarded idea and dead on arrival

>>314508
I would call the whole idea "eloquence of tryhards".

>>314509
which is periphrasis for periphrasis

>>314508
>>314509
If you're EFL (particularly some Isles dialect), it works because you don't say the "of..." bit. You only say "a gaggle", "a murder", etc. and quickly convey what you mean.

>>314513
You are still borrowing a distinct word. The more separate meanings, the more opportunities for confusion.

>>314515
I'm not telling you to research individual English dialects if you're only using it as the lingua franca, but surely some analogue must exist for whatever you were born speaking in the region you were born speaking it, with some variance in the surrounding regions. I misspoke by including "a". It could be "an", "the" or many other articles of speech. The terms for specific groupings work by themselves for a various amount of EFLs.

>>314516
why did you say 'dialects' instead of 'a gondola of dialects' or just 'a gondola' 
you cant just say the plural of what your talking about, dont you know you have to use the specific grouping name for that group

>>314518
It sounds more like you're a butthurt retard than anything else.

>>314519
thats why you need to hide behind prescriptive gobbledygook to pretend like your peasant language that doesnt even have an aorist tense is sophisticated when its the most dumbed down agrammatical antilanguange in history 
which you wouldnt know because youre clearly a english monolingual that zero clue how actual languages work

>>314520
>blablabla uneducated raped esl crying over incapability to understand dialectical nuances of lingua franca
You love to see it.

>>314523
>lingua franca
>prescriptive grammar
typical clueless monolingual moron

>>314520
>that zero clue
You are one to speak, omitting words like this.

>>314526
its actually 'a chest of words' retard, learn england

>>314529
>has yet to graduate preschool
lol lmao kek what a retard lmfao im so smart i beat the kindergarten level
What a dumb nigger.

English is only the lingua franca because A it's so simple that even a 65 iq vantablack nigger from a cannibal tribe can learn it, and B the English raped everyone and their mother 2000 million gorillon years ago.

Turd-worlders sound pretty mad about their great great great great grandmothers getting gangraped hundreds of years ago LMFAO.

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>>314535
Post hand tyrone.

>>314536
>Post hand tyrone
gb24cuck lil nigger

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>>314538
>nigger phoneposts its ancestry chart
lol

>>314531
youre a monolingual moron that didnt even know what lingua franca fucking meant while giving prescriptive peasant trash thinking youre a linguist now having never even learned another language let alone grammar let alone any subject ever
youre the dumbest most incompetent low iq imbecile that posts here

>>314539
u mad

>>314540
Nobody cares if you can barely speak English while also knowing Hindi, you street-shitting retard.

>>314543
im fluent in 5 languages you sad loser, including ancient greek latin and egyptian, whereas you never even went to fucking school lmfao, pathetic failure

<i read 5 wikipedia articles on dead languages saar i am of aryan ancestry saar i needful 1st grade saar!!!
LOL

>>314545
keep crying failure, too bad you never even went to school and cant just write a latin drill to test me like classically educated people know how to do, youre beyond incompetent, youre a fucking loser

>>314544
>fluent
Oooh, somebody claims to know Egyptian phonetics now. Interesting.

>>314549
He's probably a half-black half-Indian zoom-zoom ape and his shartshark mom bought him some throwaway frivolous Scholastic pamphlet about Egyptian hieroglyphs from a book fair hosted at his middle school a year ago.

>>314549
thats not what fluent means and youre confusing  phonetics with vowels, afro asiatic languages use consonant clusters without any vowels, theyre irrelevant since the consonant root is whats important but even if thats your autistic cope then yeah im still fluent because i know the actual pronounciation of a lot of words like per her henah duat etc. since this is how you learn the language if you go to school, the vowels have already been reversed from coptic cognates its just tradition to ignore them when writting transcripts 

>>314550
is that your test, loser
youre fucking pathetic, clown

Yep, retard is a wikipedia "expert" on 5 dead languages. I can barely hold all this laughter.

>>314553
spam your drawings of child porn now, pathetic low iq failure

>hurr durr im also the fake anti lolicon poster who thinks hes slick by using reverse psychology
Learning new things about the school pedo every day of my life. Interesting.

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>when you never went to school and dont know anything about anything 
pathetic

Everone above and below this post is a raging homosexual and probably a card-carrying member of NAMBLA.

Only the author of the post above this one is a raging homosexual and probably a card-carrying member of NAMBLA.

>>314490
And you belong to a bundle of sticks. You faggot

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>>314533
>it's so simple that even a 65 iq vantablack nigger from a cannibal tribe can learn it
https://chateauview.com/pronunciation/
Not really. The pronunciation of words are highly inconsistent in English. I hate to defend the school schizo here, but he has a point. Broken clocks and all of that.
>>314544
>im fluent in 5 languages you sad loser
English, and the three other languages you listed. What's the final fifth language?
Mind you, given your previous behavior on here, i find any of that hard to believe.
>>314547
>>314552
For what it's worth, you're not really doing anything to prove you know any of those languages. I guess just writing anything in said languages isn't going to prove anything by itself, since the faggot over there is just going to accuse you of using google translate.
>afro asiatic languages use consonant clusters without any vowels
That's not exclusive to Afro-Asiatic languages, is it?
>writting transcripts
How exactly is Egyptian (if that's even what it can be called) transcribed, assuming that hieroglyphs aren't used? Do you just use the Coptic script?

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>>314575
you just use the latin alphabet or the phonetic alphabet but the vowels are omitted because thats literally how egyptian is written, when you see a vowel its not a vowel its actually a consonant or just a phonetic complement thats only there because the scribe was feeling cute that day, hieroglyphs are normal for academics and most of the time the hieroglyphs are themselves transcribed from hieratic or demotic texts converted to hieroglyphs simply because its easier to read

>>314577
Posts like this really remind me how I want to learn Old English to engage in a racism of a higher intellectual caliber

>>314577
sooo in other words, you learned half a language from wikipedia articles lol

>>314578
I too, am learning an old white language. 
Ranked racism.

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>be bovine