Completely agree, but you would be amazed at the people who like to get their panties in a bunch either way you use it. If I recall my high school Latin correctly (very possibly not as it has been a bit), Virii was the plural of vir which was husband or possibly man (all of the references to it I recall were to married couples).
Me personally, I don't care, I will use whatever words that get the point across. The only hard and fast rule about language IMO is that a word means exactly what people trying to communicate agree on that it means. Doesn't much matter outside of that as words are simply used for communicating ideas. When people start getting their drawers bunched up and arguing over words and spelling I sit in the corner and titter wondering if we will ever get back on point. Spelling and pronunciation of words is right up there with top versus bottom posting arguments and complaining that something isn't fair. :) joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AdamT Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: going waaaayyy OT [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ditto viruses and virii. ... > Being a bit of a pedant, I have to point out that virii is neither good English, nor good Latin: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/virii.html -- AdamT A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
