Advent Calendar ~ Day 19!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's?

First off, Dear meme writer: EPIC FAIL on your pluralizing there. You do not use an apostrophe to pluralize anything; it is there for contractions or the genitive case.

 

Also, the correct plural of ‘reindeer” is: “reindeer.”

 

All right, now that we’ve straightened it out, yes, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and the odd-one out, Rudolph.*

 

I remember wondering, when I was a small child, how on Earth a reindeer was supposed to have a red nose.  I expect whoever wrote the song was thinking of the sort of deer that like to eat our garden, who have black buttony noses—that’s how they’re always animated. But in fact reindeer look a bit more moosey than that, and it’s a little hard to picture a moose with a red nose, innit?

 

 

*Also Reggie the Glow-Wyrm, from an ante-up of the Christmas version of the Glow Worm song.

Comments

[mathsnerd]

You will note, the grammar was corrected when I did the meme. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, mathnerd not only replaces horrible meme questions with new ones, she also corrects spelling and grammar in memes!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* Ah, but I left it wrong so I could skewer them on it! ;)

[killabee886.livejournal.com]

EPIC FAIL on your pluralizing there.

You get the tar; I'm on the feathers.<--see how there is no apostrophe? That's because I'm awesome.

[tay421.livejournal.com]

When I saw real reindeer for the first time, I too wondered about that. I've seen a couple of movies interpret Rudolph as an "on model" reindeer with a glowey moose nose, and it always looks kinda... weirder than a glowing button nose...

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I've always seen Rudolph depicted as having a big spherical clown-nose anyway.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it even makes NOISE! And then you want to kill everyone who made that stop motion special.

But it's contrasted with the tiny black noses of the other reindeer, when they should not have those ...

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

whoa... yeah, I never thought of that. They are always drawn more like deer than reindeer.