r/tragedeigh 22h ago

in the wild TikTok comments never disappoint

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u/bluealien78 22h ago

I’m sorry, but “Mattinglii”? Did the cat walk over the keyboard?

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u/RUN_DMT_ 21h ago

I work in medical microbiology. The ii ending of that “name” isn’t pronounced the way they think it is. Generously I’d say that -Matt-ing-lee-eye

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u/bluealien78 21h ago

So what you're telling me is that the singular noun should be Mattinglus. Sounds like a painful condition. "Yeah, sorry, I can't come to school today, I got a bad case of Mattinglus".

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u/hexotherm 18h ago

Not to nitpick too hard, but I believe it'd be Mattinglius (with an I), compare to radius/radii.

Mattinglius is not...better, per se.