Ohhh, chill out boys or I'll Kah-nee-feh you in the back. (One of my favorite pastimes as a cover ops often earning me the "Jack the Ripper" award at the end of a map.)
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM < [email protected]> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > No one 'invented' the English language. Celtic ( pronounced kel-tik) was > the language of the people of England before the arrival of the Romans > in 43 AD. > The common people continued to speak Celtic while the Romans and the > English nobility spoke Latin. > In the four hundreds, the Romans left England. The land was taken over > by Vikings from Denmark. They spoke a Germanic language. This soon mixed > with the Latin. > In 1066 England was conquered by French speaking people from Normandy. > Now French started to become mixed with the other languages. > Because French has its beginning in Latin ( lingua latina ) there was > another dose of Latin injected into the Language. > So, you see, English was not invented at one time, but evolved over many > years. The one problem that this caused was pronouncion. People took the > easiest pronouncion no matter the spelling. So now we have many words > that seem to have no connection to their pronouncion. > An example, the word knife, in German ( a phonetic language ) would be > spelled NEIF . The original pronouncion was Kah-nee-feh. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:04 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Haw-haw: New Mac OS X email worm discovered > > Bill, > > A thread thats starts "Haw Haw" cannot hope to be considered > "professional", and cannot hope to get a professional response. > > Please don't lecture me on the use of the English language, my country > invented it for goodness sake. > > Its a light hearted topic, with light hearted responses - right up until > the point you put your "two pennorth" in. > > g. > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Bill Monicher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Gavin, > Grab a dictionary. > In the olden days, they were books that listed words. Lots of > 'em -- > along with their plurals etc. > > Nowadays, try http://www.onelook.com/?w=virus&ls=a > <blockedhttp://www.onelook.com/?w=virus&ls=a> > > Although your meaning was clear, Ben is correct. His (and my) > pedantry aside, using cutesy variations for common words in a > forum of > professionals it at best, well, unprofessional. At worst, you > look > like a dweeb. > > If you can find even *one* dictionary that lists "virii" I'll > apologize. > Before you spend a lot of time looking, though, I'll give you a > hint. > No dictionary referenced by OneLook even lists the word "virii". > There are two entries returned by the search, though. > One contains the phrase, "generally considered incorrect" and > the other is: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus > <blockedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus> Check it out. > > Regards, > --BM > > > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Gavin Wilby > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ben, > > Wind down your pedant filter slightly hey! There's a good lad. > > G. > > > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ben Scott > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Gavin Wilby > <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > I dunno - a word that I made up - its obvious that it used > to denote > >> > multiple virus's. > >> > >> What does the virus own? > >> > >> To form a plural in English, on a word that ends in an "s", > use > >> "es"; thus, "viruses". As one wag once put it: > >> > >> An apostrophe does not mean, "Look out! Here > comes an > >> 's'!" > >> > >> ;-) > >> > >> I've heard it argued that there is no Latin word "virus", > and as > >> such, one should follow the English pluralization rules, not > Latin. > >> > >> -- Ben > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource > hog! ~ > >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ > <blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > ~ > > > > > > > > -- > > Gavin Wilby, > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby > <blockedhttp://twitter.com/gavin_wilby> > > GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk > <blockedhttp://www.stoof.co.uk> > > Sent from Isle Of Man > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! > ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ > <blockedhttp://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > ~ > > > > > > > -- > Gavin Wilby, > Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby > <blockedhttp://twitter.com/gavin_wilby> > GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk <blockedhttp://www.stoof.co.uk> > Sent from Isle Of Man > > > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 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