What does 'birdses' mean?

[joham]

In the captions of the movie The Lord of the Rings, there are two sentences with the word 'birdses' in 'No, no birdses to eat. No crunchable birdses.' What does 'birdses' mean? There is no such word as birdses in the dictionaries I use.

 

[jutfrank]

Gollum speaks in his own particular way. When he says birdses, he means 'birds'.

 

[Amigos4]

Gollum speaks in his own particular way. When he says birdses, he means 'birds'.

Gollum needs to become a member of UsingEnglish. When he says birdses, we say ’birds’.

 

[Skrej]

Gollum typically reduplicates plural nouns with 'es', refers to himself in third person plural while conjugating in third person singular, snf addresses others as third person neuter. His speech also varies somewhat depending upon which of his split personalities is currently in control (Smeagol or Gollum).

The name 'Gollum' actually comes from his peculiar throat-clearing noise he makes.

From The Hobbit:

"Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, gollum!" And when he said gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat. That is how he got his name, though he always called himself 'my precious.'

See also Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the Idiolects of Gollum and Sméagol

 

[Amigos4]

Gollum needs to become a member of UsingEnglish. When he says birdses, we say ’birds’.

Gollum typically reduplicates plural nouns with 'es', refers to himself in third person plural while conjugating in third person singular, snf addresses others as third person neuter. His speech also varies somewhat depending upon which of his split personalities is currently in control (Smeagol or Gollum).

The name 'Gollum' actually comes from his peculiar throat-clearing noise he makes.

From The Hobbit:


See also Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the Idiolects of Gollum and Sméagol

Perhaps Gollum should become a member of a different forum!

 

[emsr2d2]

Perhaps Gollum should become a member of a different forum!

Maybe we should all join "Using Gollumese" before watching the films!