030812 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Pierre Jarillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> IMHO, won't be fixed... for another reason:
>> In latin, media is a plural. But we don't speak latin anymore. 
>> This word is imported in several langages.
>> Then the word follows usual rules of its new langage.

the rule for English is to use Latin plurals
or go over to an English plural if the word becomes very common.
but you never take a Latin plural & then add another plural to it.

> No, we've decided to fix that in the middle of 9.2 process.
> We decided to use "medium" and "media". Rpmdrake should be clean
> from "medias" now, except menu title (which is fixed in CVS).

good!

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