I am enjoying this language lesson ... A little distraction is good, when you need it. It is not the information I'm looking for, but it .. Helped. Thank you. M
Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone Jim McLaughlin <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com> wrote: >A writer whom I rather like was credited with commenting that my country >and his were unfortunately separated by a common language. I have always >thought that to be >a quite accurate observation. > >I suggest that we agree to disagree and each withdraw from the field, each >knowing that we are each separately correct as to preferred usages in our >respective geographic areas. >Languages , even Latin, are living things and continually evolve. Perhaps >only Carthaginian appears to not do so. Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio >Africanus) seems to have taken care of that. > >In any event, I think that half breed, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill >had an apt point. > >I promise to not make fun of your side's silly pronunciations of "clerk" >and spelling and pronunciation of "aluminum" if you will refrain from >calling me silly for my usage preferences. > > > > >On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> >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 of "vir" and means "men". (I >> suppose some people do believe that all men are slime.) >> >> *"Virii" would be the plural of the (non-existent) *"virius". >> >> Brian Barker >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
