On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ryan Sims wrote:
On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
I like it. What about trackballs?
Gremlins?
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On 12/13/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ryan Sims wrote:
On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
I like it. What about trackballs?
Gremlins?
Tribbles?
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Bira wrote:
On 12/13/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ryan Sims wrote:
On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
I like it. What about trackballs?
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:30:55 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote:
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
I like it. What about trackballs?
A trackball is an oversixed, upside down[1] mouse, so I'd call it a dead
rat... except that sounds too much like a Linux distro :)
[1]
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:38, Uwe Thiem wrote:
3. (plural mouses) a small hand-held device for controlling a cursor
on a VDU screen.
I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use
mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the
Oxford dictionary
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:38:07 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary. First, I had to
make sure how they indicate irregular plurals. The first word that came
to mind was mouse. Look what they write there apart from 1. the animal
and 2. a timid person:
3.
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 09:38, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses':
I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use
mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford
dictionary nuts, or is this
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:38:07 +0300, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
this is for English native speakers (British English, American English
and
colonial English alike).
I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary. First, I had to make
sure
how they indicate irregular
061212 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:38:07 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
I was looking up something in my Oxford dictionary.
3. (plural mouses) a small hand-held device
for controlling a cursor on a VDU screen.
1) You have waaay too much time on your hands :)
It's ok to have
On 12 December 2006 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use
mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford
dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice wrong in this case?
1) You have waaay
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:20 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
3) a dictionary documents the language as used,
This may be difficult for German French natives to grasp,
as their languages have strict rules laid down by authorities
Which everyone ignores...
You can't enforce rules of
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:20:48 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
I always thought of the Oxford dictionary as extremely conservative,
i.e. it reflects a language in use 30 years ago.
I used to think the same, but it is not so, for example the
2002 edition lists text as a verb.
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On 12/12/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12 December 2006 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use
mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford
dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:05:56 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote:
2) My OED (2002 edition) says of the computer device (pl also
mouses) so they consider both mice and mouses to be correct.
Might this also be related to the use of mouse as a verb? I.e.
mouse over the image to see it change,
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
While language evolution is not a democratic process, I've never heard
*anyone* use the word mouses for *anything* and if I had I would have
corrected them by telling them mice is the proper plural of mouse,
even
On 12 December 2006 18:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
While language evolution is not a democratic process, I've never heard
*anyone* use the word mouses for *anything* and if I had I would have
corrected them by telling them mice is the proper plural of mouse,
even when talking about a
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:43 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
In Argentina we do not say raton (spanish translation for mouse)
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
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Selon Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:43 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
In Argentina we do not say raton (spanish translation for mouse)
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
I propose we rename that thread:
Of mice (mouses ?)
On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:43 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
In Argentina we do not say raton (spanish translation for mouse)
As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-)
I like it. What about trackballs?
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On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:12 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 12 December 2006 18:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
While language evolution is not a democratic process, I've never heard
*anyone* use the word mouses for *anything* and if I had I would have
corrected them by telling them mice is
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:05 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote:
Might this also be related to the use of mouse as a verb? I.e.
mouse over the image to see it change,
I mouse
You mouse
He mouses?
We all.mice?
Well, that had me laughing quite a bit. However, are you really sure
that the verb would
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