Hooray!

[Giant Squid]

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Ha! My voice has finally been heard! Take that, GP!

[benedetti]

For what is worth, I am with you on this one, Calamaro. Now I need you to help me explain the people that, just like fora, "data" is a plural and therefore to say "data is" is incorrect. Deal?

[Giant Squid]

Sure. I learned that datum a long time ago.
Maybe you can help me with this one...is viruses supposed to be viri? I would say yes if it's second declension Latin, but I'm not sure if it's 4th declension or what?

[Comrade Dan]

I can understand 'forum' being Latin, but I'm not too sure that 'data' and 'virus' are...

[Scouse Gits]

Datum - neuter form of datus (latin)
virus - latin means venom (no I'm not sure which declension)


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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[TCO]

All right you rambunctious Latinizing Calamari.

My Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary has the preferred plural as forums. Although it says "also fora".

So I guess it's OK for you to use the second best plural if that satisfies you. I will of course be sticking to the standard form.

[Scouse Gits]

Well - if my schoolboy Latin is up to De Bello Gallico - it appears to be Second Declension hence viri - see the references here.


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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor
Post script[um] added in edit - I begin to think that my schoolboy Latin is better than the search engine - Unless I am mistaken most of the references contained in the list I gathered are forms of vir (man) not virus (venom) - any decent Latin scholars out there??

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[Scouse Gits]

Does this help ? - from 'Saxo Grammaticus'

virus, -i n. (nonnisi sing.num.) i.q. sucus noxius et venenatus serpentis

All my contributions courtesy of www.yourdictionary.com - an invaluable resource

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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[Huey]

Next time I'll ask the bartender for two ra...

[Comrade Dan]

Why did Huey cut off in mid sentence?

And secondly - Latin is a language on life support, and Chinese wants to pull the plug, to meet the place in the sky where dead languages like Sanskirt and Babylonian are...

[Scouse Gits]

Tovarisch,
I don't know, maybe Huey will enlighten us.
On the other point if the roots of half of our language were Sanskrit or Babylonian the languages would not be as dead as they are. OK Latin is a language on life-support, but still a valuable resource - it will be a sad day when 'schoolboy Latin' is no more and the language truly lives only in the minds and books of dedicated scholars.


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Scouse Git[1]

"CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor

[Huey]

Nah, don't think so, one thing worse than a bad joke is an explained joke...

[Ari Rahikkala]

This reminds me...
http://pub9.ezboard.com/fcivworldoff...picID=53.topic