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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by Felmon Davis <da...@union.edu> on 2016/08/06 20:29:30 UTC
[OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
>> virii
>
> Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension
> noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not
> *"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means "men". (I
> suppose some people do believe that all men are slime.)
that's a great line (men and slime)!
ok, so how about this one - how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
> *"Virii" would be the plural of the (non-existent) *"virius".
btw I just take it that 'virii' is now slang so acceptable on that
score, kind of like 'deletia' which is also impossible in Latin.
f.
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Felmon Davis
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Re: [OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
>...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs
a plural in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get back to software?!)
Brian Barker
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Re: [OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 17:10 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
>aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!
Philip Howard, who used to write on words for The [London] Times, had
a short chapter in one of his books entitled "Data is not what they
used to be"!
Brian Barker
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Re: [OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)
Posted by Felmon Davis <da...@union.edu>.
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
>> ...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
>
> "Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs a plural
> in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
>
> (Er, should we get back to software?!)
aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!
was (silly) fun!
back to business.
f.
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