Okay, so this might be stupid, but I started to learn the prefixes in chemistry and related it to Halo. Mono- means one and a Mongoose is not one, it can carry two people, whereas, Di- means two, so isn’t supposed to be Digoose? Obviously 343i isn’t going to make the change, but I had a deep thought about it. Lol. What do you guys think?
UNSC vehicles are named after animals. EX, Scorpion, Warthog, Hornet, Falcon, etc. There is a small carnivorous mammal called a monogoose, that is the reasoning behind its name. Sidenote, all covanent vehicles are named after supernatraul beings. EX, Phantom, Ghost, Wraith, Banshie, etc. (Pardon my spelling)
I think your going to far into this matey. Mongoose comes from the Arabic pronounciation mungus. Ain’t got no thing with mono being one. All this info curtesy of Wikipedia. Now maybe I’m going to far into this.
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> UNSC vehicles are named after animals. EX, Scorpion, Warthog, Hornet, Falcon, etc. There is a small carnivorous mammal called a monogoose, that is the reasoning behind its name. Sidenote, all covanent vehicles are named after supernatraul beings. EX, Phantom, Ghost, Wraith, Banshie, etc. (Pardon my spelling)
Ohhhh…well you learn something new everyday.
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> I think your going to far into this matey. Mongoose comes from the Arabic pronounciation mungus. Ain’t got no thing with mono being one. All this info curtesy of Wikipedia. Now maybe I’m going to far into this.
See, something so simple as a Mongoose can really get you into a deep thought.
You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
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> You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
True, but the o can be removed like carbon monoxide (mon- oxide, oxide for oxygen), anyways predator just explained to me that vehicles are named after animals.
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> > You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
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> True, but the o can be removed like carbon monoxide (mon- oxide, oxide for oxygen), anyways predator just explained to me that vehicles are named after animals.
In the case of monoxide, the second “o” is removed because saying mono-oxide would be weird. It’s an exception to the rule. In the cases where a consonant follows “mono-”, the “o” isn’t removed (e.g. monochloride).
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> > > You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
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> > True, but the o can be removed like carbon monoxide (mon- oxide, oxide for oxygen), anyways predator just explained to me that vehicles are named after animals.
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> In the case of monoxide, the second “o” is removed because saying mono-oxide would be weird. It’s an exception to the rule. In the cases where a consonant follows “mono-”, the “o” isn’t removed (e.g. monochloride).
True, like I said the o in mono can be removed, but that is interesting that they named their vehicles after animals.
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> > > > You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
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> > In the case of monoxide, the second “o” is removed because saying mono-oxide would be weird. It’s an exception to the rule. In the cases where a consonant follows “mono-”, the “o” isn’t removed (e.g. monochloride).
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> True, like I said the o in mono can be removed, but that is interesting that they named their vehicles after animals.
Yes, the second o can be removed when what follows is a vowel, but in the case of mongoose, even if it were using “mono” as a prefix, the second o would remain because what would follow is a consonant. So there is no case in the english language where mongoose could ever have been using “mon-” as a prefix.
Just iterating this because when you said “like I said the o in mono can be removed”, it sounded like you still weren’t getting the crux of your grammatical error.
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> > > > > You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
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> > > > True, but the o can be removed like carbon monoxide (mon- oxide, oxide for oxygen), anyways predator just explained to me that vehicles are named after animals.
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> > > In the case of monoxide, the second “o” is removed because saying mono-oxide would be weird. It’s an exception to the rule. In the cases where a consonant follows “mono-”, the “o” isn’t removed (e.g. monochloride).
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> Yes, the second o can be removed when what follows is a vowel, but in the case of mongoose, even if it were using “mono” as a prefix, the second o would remain because what would follow is a consonant. So there is no case in the english language where mongoose could ever have been using “mon-” as a prefix.
> Just iterating this because when you said “like I said the o in mono can be removed”, it sounded like you still weren’t getting the crux of your grammatical error.
I’m sorry, I didn’t know this was a english paper…
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> > > > > > You would be right, OP, if the vehicle was called Monogoose. But it is called a Mongoose, after the snake-eaking mammal. Naming vehicles after animals is a popular UNSC theme.
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> > > > > True, but the o can be removed like carbon monoxide (mon- oxide, oxide for oxygen), anyways predator just explained to me that vehicles are named after animals.
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> > > > In the case of monoxide, the second “o” is removed because saying mono-oxide would be weird. It’s an exception to the rule. In the cases where a consonant follows “mono-”, the “o” isn’t removed (e.g. monochloride).
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> > > True, like I said the o in mono can be removed, but that is interesting that they named their vehicles after animals.
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> > Yes, the second o can be removed when what follows is a vowel, but in the case of mongoose, even if it were using “mono” as a prefix, the second o would remain because what would follow is a consonant. So there is no case in the english language where mongoose could ever have been using “mon-” as a prefix.
> > Just iterating this because when you said “like I said the o in mono can be removed”, it sounded like you still weren’t getting the crux of your grammatical error.
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> I’m sorry, I didn’t know this was a english paper…
An english paper.
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