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Kaichos Man Member (Idle past 4516 days) Posts: 250 From: Tasmania, Australia Joined: |
I would like to enter for Anal Retentive of the Year by suggesting that All Forums be changed to All Fora.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
I concur.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Shouldn't we also write fori instead of forum's and fororum instead of forums'? Otherwise it makes a mockery of the whole thing.
Personally, I decline.
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
I dissent. Forums, not Fora, is correct English. Fora is correct in Latin, but merely an imported affectation in English.
Edited by Mr Jack, : No reason given.
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2726 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, Mr Jack.
Mr Jack writes: I dissent. Forums, not Fora, is correct English. Fora is correct in Latin, but merely an imported affectation in English. If it were a technical or scientific term, I would argue for the correct Latin usage; but, "fora" just comes off as pretentious in colloquial usage. -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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AnswersInGenitals Member (Idle past 179 days) Posts: 673 Joined: |
...suggesting that All Forums be changed to All Fora. My spell checker, which I have no doubt is of divine origin, accepts both, ergo they must both be valid. I think most people would see 'fora' as a misspelling.
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AnswersInGenitals Member (Idle past 179 days) Posts: 673 Joined: |
I concur. You are with dog?
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4218 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
I think most people would see 'fora' as a misspelling. I wouldn't any more than I would consider spirilla (sing spirillum), data (sing datum), strata (sing stratum) or phyla (sing phylum) as misspellings, or the plural I don't think anyone would see as a misspelling, bacteria (sing bacterium). There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2726 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
"Opossum" is not derived from Latin, but from Algonquian, and so, the proper plural is "opossums."
And, the proper plural for "specimen" is "specimina." The proper plural of "species" is "speciei." The proper plural of "Triceratops" is "Triceratopes." The proper singular of "thrips" is "thrips." Why did we drop the final "-a" from the Latin word "vipera?" And, why do we pronounce the letter "i" in Latin words like "aye," when the actual pronunciation is like "ee?"
Venom is produced in a gland, injected actively into a target, and acts by attacking tissues; while poison is sequestered in tissues, passively ingested by the target, and acts by causing illness or impalatability. There are no poisonous spiders or poisonous snakes: there are, however, many venomous spiders and venomous snakes. The letter "j" in Chinese is pronounced like the letter "j" in English, not like in the French word "deja vu." So, the capitol is "Bei-jing," not "Bei-zhing." This one drives me particularly crazy because there is hardly precedent for the idiot colloquial pronunciation by English speakers of the Chinese capitol city. Do you still think you can win the award, Kaichos Man? -Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus) Darwin loves you.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Hypermarket.
Drives me nuts.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
Bluejay writes: The proper plural of "species" is "speciei." More importantly, "species" is the proper singular, not the horrible "specie".
The letter "j" in Chinese is pronounced like the letter "j" in English, not like in the French word "deja vu." So, the capitol is "Bei-jing," not "Bei-zhing." This one drives me particularly crazy because there is hardly precedent for the idiot colloquial pronunciation by English speakers of the Chinese capitol city. Also, what's wrong with "Peking"? Do English speakers say "Pahree" instead of "Paris"? Do they say "Praha" when they mean Prague? "Myanmar" when they mean Burma? (If you pronounce it quickly and a bit sloppily you can hear where "Burma" came from.) Why then make an exception for Peking? Does it have to do with transcription of one character set to another? Another infuriating example of this is the name Al Qaeda, pronounced as "al kaida". Whatever possessed the person who came up with that transcription to spell it with a Q? Edited by Parasomnium, : No reason given.
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
The proper plural of "species" is "speciei." In Latin, maybe, but not in SCIENCE!, in SCIENCE! the proper plural is species.
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4218 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
Also, what's wrong with "Peking"? Do English speakers say "Pahree" instead of "Paris"? Do they say "Praha" when they mean Prague? "Myanmar" when they mean Burma? (If you pronounce it quickly and a bit sloppily you can hear where "Burma" came from.) I agree. If I said the following: When I returned from Han-Kuk the plane refueled in Il-Bon. How many would know where I left from and where the plane was refueled? There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
"Myanmar" when they mean Burma? (If you pronounce it quickly and a bit sloppily you can hear where "Burma" came from.) I was under the impression Myanmar was what Burma was renamed to by the military junta; rather than Burma being a westernisation of an original name.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
Mr Jack writes: I was under the impression Myanmar was what Burma was renamed to by the military junta; rather than Burma being a westernisation of an original name. It's both.
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