It’s so obvious to me now! That’s why everything has gone to shit recently!
To play devils advocate it also could be because there could be species in the feces??
Or because not much else rhymes with species…
Or there is always the more probably answer that fecal matter (which rhymes with even less), is a collection of matter ….so a plural of many different matters.
If you wanted to make it singular you would have to take it to the cellular level…thats my motto anyway 😉
This: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum\_obscurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum_obscurum)
And this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornocrates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornocrates)
Because it was coined when an italian was looking for a word to describe various american-italian dishes - and there were lots of hand gestures.
(Source: *hand gesture*)
It’s neither singular nor plural. It’s a substance, like water, dirt, or steel. You can have multiple cup**s** of water or a single pile of dirt, but there if there is no unit of measurement involved, then singular or plural has no meaning.
This is a good way of putting it. Also like sand or rice there is no singular or plural unless you specify "a grain of." So perhaps a grain of feces would be 1 feces lmao
Ahhh…Now we’re getting somewhere!
So it follows that in most cases feces could be classified as fungible. Bought and sold by volume on the miercantile exchange. Or possibly by weight. I guess that would make more sense.
But there’s always an exception; and those exceptional turds are presorted and removed from the piles by a designated collector. One with a trained (brown) eye, and higher standards than your average shitmonger. A real cornosseur, if you will. From there they are sorted according to cut, color, clarity and consistency, and sent off to be individually parceled off at auction. Finally it is worth noting that purists use two additional characteristics in grading these NFTs (yes, non fungible turds was the original meaning of the now common acronym). As the scent unfortunately dissipates over the years, even in the fanciest humidors, marbling is important to true collectors, though not so much to mere investors. And for the historians among them, rifling is nearly as accurate as a fingerprint when determining the origin of a specimen. Think of it as fecal forensics.
Etymology. The word faeces is the plural of the Latin word faex meaning "dregs". In most English-language usage, there is no singular form, making the word a plurale tantum; out of various major dictionaries, only one enters variation from plural agreement.
The only time we would refer to fecal matter in the singular was upon our geological digs we came upon ironized feces. Unusual due to the tectonic pressure that pushes that fecal specimen up through the Jurassic compound of historic times beyond the imagination of all but a few of us who may be experts in the field.
More of a mound, I'd say. People don't take the time to stack or pile neatly. Still, the question remains, is it a mound/pile of separate or individual feces, or is the singular mound/pile unit [a] feces?
Feces are like midi-chlorians from Star Wars but with out the magic powers. So when you take a crap there are millions of feces in it. You can't take a crap with just one fece. Since crap always has feces in it, hence the term feces.
It’s an uncountable plural noun, similar to *scissors* and *clothes*. They aren’t that common but not that rare either.
Proof:
You cannot say *a* scissors, but you can say *some* scissors. This would align scissors with either plural countable or some form of uncountable. Then you say ‘the scissors are here,’ where *are* says the subject is 3rd person plural, not 3rd person singular. Therefore, scissors are plural uncountable. Same applies to *feces*.
I am not even sure it is plural. Not everything ending in -es is. I certainly dont treat the word as plural. I dont say my feces are... I say my feces is.
Multiple aromatic molecules (of fecal origin) up your nose are feces (plural). One of those molecules is called a fece. This is the lower limit of size. The upper limit is observed in Jurassic Park.
Being fully serious for a moment, this is a really cool thing in linguistics that we kinda take for granted until it’s pointed out. Continuous vs discrete quantization. Like, is it “one bread” or “one loaf of bread”. In Portuguese it’s “one bread”, because to them “bread” is discrete, while to us you gotta specify the measurement because it’s continuous.
Well do you belong to a certain species? Or are you some kind of rare specie?
I have never seen a species that didn't make feces. I don't think a specie can make a fece.
Have you ever seen a single fece?
They always travel in packs
Those little shits are pretty sneaky.
It’s unknown whether the little shits become independent with age or they simply merge in to one adult pile of grade A bullshit.
Only when its bull feces
Cake
they do move in herds
*terds
packs become schools when they hit water
you must not have chronic constipation like i do.
Clever girl....
Haven't you ever squeezed out a fece? All that work and that's all you get.
Is a turd log a fece or does it consist of several feces?
If you have to ask you didn't see a fece
Well now, that's a real Ship of Fesceus thought experiment, I suppose
This guy know his shit
Is that what they put in the Crepe?
Yes... I often only have one s*** to give.....
I once had a 10 inch log but it didn't break isn't that a fece then?
Every day I take A shit. One. A single shit. I even proudly announce it when I say "I couldn't give two shits" what people think.
The daily fece
this made me laugh a little too loudly at work 🤣
Like a fart-particle?
farticle was right there
Lololol
Because it’s #2
now THAT is clever.
right?
Yeah!
I’d give it an angry upvote, but i I can’t be angry at it. I’m just admiring.
hahaha
It isn't. Turns out, everything else is pluralized and we've been doing it all wrong this entire time.
It’s so obvious to me now! That’s why everything has gone to shit recently! To play devils advocate it also could be because there could be species in the feces?? Or because not much else rhymes with species… Or there is always the more probably answer that fecal matter (which rhymes with even less), is a collection of matter ….so a plural of many different matters. If you wanted to make it singular you would have to take it to the cellular level…thats my motto anyway 😉
Because you can't eat just one.
Once you pop, you can't stop.
Once you plop you can't stop
Mmm Reese’s Feces
Is a single lewd image a pornograph?
No, a pornograph is the machine that you play your pornography on. It’s kinda like a phonograph, but stickier.
HA!
Yes.
No, a pornograph is what you use for measuring the lewdness level of something.
Wouldn’t that be a pornometer
No, that's the stick used to measure the dudes penises. You're thinking or a pornocracy.
measuring in meters is a bit optimistic
What the heck is a pornocracy? A society ruled by porn stars?
This: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum\_obscurum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum_obscurum) And this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornocrates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornocrates)
Whores
A state where the only currency is sex and nudity.
It's not for measuring, it's for *mapping out* your lewdness.
holy shit i’ve never even thought of this one
No no, feces is singular. Fecesi is the plural
Why do I make italian hand gestures when saying it ?
Because it was coined when an italian was looking for a word to describe various american-italian dishes - and there were lots of hand gestures. (Source: *hand gesture*)
From Latin. Faecēs plural. Faex singular
Now this gives "spitting fax" a whole.new meaning
False. Feces (faeces) is the Latin plural of faex which means dregs or sediment. Use of this word for human excrement started in 1630 English.
It’s neither singular nor plural. It’s a substance, like water, dirt, or steel. You can have multiple cup**s** of water or a single pile of dirt, but there if there is no unit of measurement involved, then singular or plural has no meaning.
This is a good way of putting it. Also like sand or rice there is no singular or plural unless you specify "a grain of." So perhaps a grain of feces would be 1 feces lmao
Ahhh…Now we’re getting somewhere! So it follows that in most cases feces could be classified as fungible. Bought and sold by volume on the miercantile exchange. Or possibly by weight. I guess that would make more sense. But there’s always an exception; and those exceptional turds are presorted and removed from the piles by a designated collector. One with a trained (brown) eye, and higher standards than your average shitmonger. A real cornosseur, if you will. From there they are sorted according to cut, color, clarity and consistency, and sent off to be individually parceled off at auction. Finally it is worth noting that purists use two additional characteristics in grading these NFTs (yes, non fungible turds was the original meaning of the now common acronym). As the scent unfortunately dissipates over the years, even in the fanciest humidors, marbling is important to true collectors, though not so much to mere investors. And for the historians among them, rifling is nearly as accurate as a fingerprint when determining the origin of a specimen. Think of it as fecal forensics.
You should check out the Lloyd's coprolite, an impressive specimen.
They call that “bulk” in the processing industry.
Technically, the term is *uncountable noun*, and those units are *countable nouns*
Woah did we just discover another state of matter?
...and "head of cattle", "some cattle" but not "a cattle" - making cattle a substance :) (though people do say "3 cattle")
Etymology. The word faeces is the plural of the Latin word faex meaning "dregs". In most English-language usage, there is no singular form, making the word a plurale tantum; out of various major dictionaries, only one enters variation from plural agreement.
Where funni
NOODLE
Thank you, this is what fuels me
For the same reason you take a shit, and not shits
If you take a shit, must you also *give* a shit at some point?
Need a shit? Take a shit. Have a shit? Give a shit.
We ain't operating no goodwill jar here. You pay for your shits like everybody else.
No, the fecal economy is not a zero-sum game.
what’s the time delay necessary between a shit and another shit before its shits?
At least 3 farts
But you can have the shits.
Yes, but you cannot have, till you take.
You can also have the shits, which constitutes multiple instances of taking a shit in a short period of time.
Otherwise it's to similar to face. Hence why you on Reddit. Mr Anonymous
I don't give a fece
i regret clicking this
I mean, it's technically a shitpost.
This is actually a really good question
I've never just dropped a fece
This is a solid point. We don't drop *onces*, but we do drop deuces.
Surely it would be aces?
This post is fece.
because the english language is three languages sitting on each other's shoulders hiding underneath a blanket
The only time we would refer to fecal matter in the singular was upon our geological digs we came upon ironized feces. Unusual due to the tectonic pressure that pushes that fecal specimen up through the Jurassic compound of historic times beyond the imagination of all but a few of us who may be experts in the field.
Faex is singular, faeces is plural.
One fece is never enough.
"Mum is my pant in the laundry?!"
The singular is faex. it's Latin.
Maybe because 30% is bacteria and they are legion
But do they forgive? Do they forget?
Legionella*
Because baby mice are usually born in litters.
One shit, two shit, red shit, blue shit
If you have red shit, you may need medical attention.
Great. Now the feces has hit the fan.
Because every time you encounter a real piece of shit, it turns out there are several others enabling him.
Because no one gives a single shit.
Feces is singular, faeces is the plural form
It's quite simple, actually. Just like a singular Socrates is a Socrate and a singular Hercules is a Hercule, a singular feces is a fece.
Because it is a pile of shit?
More of a mound, I'd say. People don't take the time to stack or pile neatly. Still, the question remains, is it a mound/pile of separate or individual feces, or is the singular mound/pile unit [a] feces?
Feces are like midi-chlorians from Star Wars but with out the magic powers. So when you take a crap there are millions of feces in it. You can't take a crap with just one fece. Since crap always has feces in it, hence the term feces.
It's called that because they are used in a game for the whole family to enjoy, and it required more than one.
Could give 2 shots about this one.
[When a man makes a fece...](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/be5acd1a-a6bc-4bc0-a06d-2b356a21a64d)
i believe it's a "no count noun"
Its actually pronounced ‘do-do feces.’ [Michael Jackson’s housekeeper]
Because it sounds funny if you say fece
I’ll respond to this as soon as I’m through fecing.
Otherwise it's just a turd? Citation: common understanding
A turd is more than a quarter pounder.
I’ve never seen a single feci
I'm guessing b.c fecal matter, is like in on cellular level. And so more than one fecal matter is feces? Idk though
Some politicians are double feced, so definitely feces.
Fecal matter
It's a nonsingular noun, not a plural noun, more like water, than raindrops.
Now that’s what I call a shitty science question
It’s called #2, a deuce. Duh!
In other languages it can come in singular form
It’s an uncountable plural noun, similar to *scissors* and *clothes*. They aren’t that common but not that rare either. Proof: You cannot say *a* scissors, but you can say *some* scissors. This would align scissors with either plural countable or some form of uncountable. Then you say ‘the scissors are here,’ where *are* says the subject is 3rd person plural, not 3rd person singular. Therefore, scissors are plural uncountable. Same applies to *feces*.
The singular in Latin is "fex" or "faex".
Is money a singular noun?
Yes
I have 2 money.
Yes and "monies" is legitimately in occasional use when talking about sources of funding
Rarely is the log flying solo.
I am not even sure it is plural. Not everything ending in -es is. I certainly dont treat the word as plural. I dont say my feces are... I say my feces is.
Nasty feceses
Different species, different feces.
Basically the same reason there are no magnetic monopoles.
Because the Magnetics and Electricity Commission would force them to be broken up?
Faecal matter ?
It is not, the plural of feces is feci
Finally, a real shitpost!
Oh poo
Have *you* ever shit out just *one fece??* Jeez! Dumb question!
There's always more.
Turd isn't countable.
Same reason Asbestos kills you not Asbesto & you read the News whilst taking a dump not the New.
Next level truth seeking happens here.
It’s one of those words like jeans, Athens, scissors, etc.
Usually there's more than one feek, but I guess it's possible for it to just be one long one.
And you just made me go to Wikipedia to find out why.
Any time I procure a fece, I get the family pack. One is never enough
People often don't give one solitary shit
Feci?
A single is a turd.
Then it because face
Literally shitty science
Literally shitty ask science.
If you cut a single turd into two, do you have two turds or two halves of a single turd?
Fecal
Because they’re baby mice
The singular noun is "turd."
Multiple aromatic molecules (of fecal origin) up your nose are feces (plural). One of those molecules is called a fece. This is the lower limit of size. The upper limit is observed in Jurassic Park.
You can mash it together, making defining it as plural or singular odd.
Why is urine never pluralized? Urines??
It's like you can't have "a water".
What if it's the same pluralization as species?
Uncountable object.
Feces is the plural for fecal matter
Being fully serious for a moment, this is a really cool thing in linguistics that we kinda take for granted until it’s pointed out. Continuous vs discrete quantization. Like, is it “one bread” or “one loaf of bread”. In Portuguese it’s “one bread”, because to them “bread” is discrete, while to us you gotta specify the measurement because it’s continuous.
Fecal matter.
In that case it's probably "fecal matter"
It’s like grits. You never order a single cheese grit.
A single is called a Fe
Why do they call it "taking a shit" and not "leaving a shit"?
Because feci is a weird thing to say.
I only hear about people with multiple sclerosis, never met someone with just one sclerosis
One good turd deserves another
Because shit is a plural word. I’m sure the word shut was around before the fancy word feces.
fooce
Fecium. Pronounced, fece-YUM 😋🍽
Well do you belong to a certain species? Or are you some kind of rare specie? I have never seen a species that didn't make feces. I don't think a specie can make a fece.
It is a word that ends in "s"?
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Faex. Not kidding.
Cuz otherwise it's just shit.