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Old 02-15-2004, 05:05 PM
Styvaen
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Default Re: Peter Köhlmann teaches English

TehGhodTrole wrote:

> Styvaen wrote:
>> TehGhodTrole wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Virus_(disambiguation) sometimes gets the even more inappropriate
>>> pseudoclassical plural virii, which presumes Latin *virius. All of
>>> these words can and should also take the regular English inflection
>>> in -es. When pronunciation of learned words goes astray, it is
>>> sometimes called a hyperforeignism."

>>
>> Hmm OK but assuming virus is getting pluralised twice to get virii

>
> The rest of your post was hacked out and not read on the grounds that it
> has already been established that virii is not a word that exists in
> either Latin or English. Consequently the rest of what follows must, by
> necessity alone, be founded upon deep misapprehension. Either that or you
> are a troll, and I am a far better troll than thee becasue I troll, for
> God's sake.
>
>

It was an attempt at humour. DUH!

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