slimkid;219835 Wrote: > First sentence uses genitive singular (which doesn't even exist in > English), so 'forum' would become 'fore'. The second one would require > use of acusative singular, so 'forus' would be the right word to use. > Now, since nobody would ever use this in English language, I really > don't see how use of 'fora', which is nominative plural all the sudden > makes sense.
Um, my latin is 20 years out of date too, but I can't resist :) Accusative singular is deffo forum, certain there I am also certain that genitive singular is not fore, but not sure whether it's fori (preferred guess) or foro (I think that's the dative) forum, forum, fori, foro, foro fora, fora, forarum, foris, foris That's my call And also, the first will actually be accusative and the second dative (rather than genitive and accusative respectively). Therefore, it'll be forum and foro. But most importantly, of course, we rarely actually use the correct plural in english - in most cases, just adding an s is fine. Most people don't even know that "data" is (are?!?) plural. So while fora is correct in latin, in english you can use forums - after all, it's forums.slimdevices.com! (So after all that, we agree!) Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37308 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
