At 17:10 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!
Philip Howard, who used to write on words for The [London] Times, had
a short chapter in one of his books entitled "Data is not what they
used to be"!
Brian Barker
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs a plural
in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs
a plural in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get back to software?!)
Brian Barker
On 08/06/2016 04:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> The idea that all Latin nouns ending -us form plurals ending -i is
> specious.
>
You mean martini isn't the plural of martinus? ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_5h8CzRcI
Around 4:45
Wayne & Shuster were a famous Canadian comedy duo.
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
virii
Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension
noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not
*"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural
At 15:40 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?
This guy says that the Latin "virus" means something like "slime" and
is a mass noun, having no plural: if you add slime to the slime you
already have, you get more slime, not *"two slimes".
In English,
