On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits, > > > to help slow vira propagation: > > > > That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... > > > > [ SNIP explanation of latin plurals ] > > > > This concludes today's pedantry.] > > I enjoy my daily dose of pedantry. > > However, the way I was taught it was that `virus' was already a plural > /did not have a plural in latin.
As I said: > > Anyway, there are no recorded instances of a Latin plural of > > "virus", because its meaning back then was abstract and not > > something you could really pluralize. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
