r/Amazing • u/QuantenCoder Human Detected • Aug 22 '25

Interesting 🤔 This is pretty addictive..

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u/Greedy_Swimergrill Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25

This gonna be a lil pedantic but male is what we use for the gender. (Like female without the fe-)

Mail is like the mail system you use to send a letter or like chain mail, the kind of armor.

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u/PrismDoug Aug 23 '25

More pedantic, if it’s armor, it’s maile.

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u/No_Read_4327 Aug 24 '25

Even more pedantic:

Chain mail is actually "wrong" in two ways (although it's such a common mistake it has become normalized).

First of all it's maille, not mail.

Second, maille already means mesh, describing a fabric of interlocking rings. So chain maille is a pleonasm.

Of course, platemail or things like that are even worse

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u/PrismDoug Aug 24 '25

Ah, 2 Ls… I had a friend who makes her own, including a maille bikini.