The plural of Virus
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No, no no no no, NO. Y'see, I SAID SHIRLEY when the meaning required was Surely - a la Airplane (aka Flying High) - so I WAS MAKING THE JOKE IN THE FIRST PLACE. (well, I say joke - it was funny when Leslie first used it)
Just joking with you. :) I could have the best joke writer in the business give me a joke and it would fall flat.
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Two words: Procrastination inception. Why do you this? I was procrastinating in the first place when I got here. Procrastination inside procrastination.
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...is probably viruses[^] This community announcement brought to you by: Procrastination Why do something incredibly important right now when you can find a hundred usless things to do instead! Yeah, one of those days...
cheers Chris Maunder
The plural of "virus" is "Windows".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Resuscitating my high school Latin: Treating 'virus' as a Latin noun and assuming that the normal form is the nominative singular form (the form used when it is the subject of a sentence), the 'us' ending means that it has to be either first or fourth declension. If it is first declension, the nominative plural form would be viri; if fourth declension, it would be 'virus' (spelt the same but pronounced differently ('viroose')). 'Vira' would be the plural form of a first declension neuter noun whose singular form was 'virum'. In fact, the origin of the word virus is (according to my ancient version of the Oxford English Dictionary) a (first declension) Latin adjective, so things get a bit more complicated, since a singular noun derived from it (fairly common Latin practice) might well be 'virum' ('poisonous thing'), with 'vira' as a plural, but since the standard singular form is the masculine 'virus', we are back to 'viri' as a plural. Having said all this, we are speaking and writing English (or, in some cases, American!), and it is common and perfectly proper to form plurals of singular words taken over from other languages by adding standard English plural endings, so my usage preference is actually 'viruses'.
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The plural of "virus" is "Windows".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013:laugh:
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Resuscitating my high school Latin: Treating 'virus' as a Latin noun and assuming that the normal form is the nominative singular form (the form used when it is the subject of a sentence), the 'us' ending means that it has to be either first or fourth declension. If it is first declension, the nominative plural form would be viri; if fourth declension, it would be 'virus' (spelt the same but pronounced differently ('viroose')). 'Vira' would be the plural form of a first declension neuter noun whose singular form was 'virum'. In fact, the origin of the word virus is (according to my ancient version of the Oxford English Dictionary) a (first declension) Latin adjective, so things get a bit more complicated, since a singular noun derived from it (fairly common Latin practice) might well be 'virum' ('poisonous thing'), with 'vira' as a plural, but since the standard singular form is the masculine 'virus', we are back to 'viri' as a plural. Having said all this, we are speaking and writing English (or, in some cases, American!), and it is common and perfectly proper to form plurals of singular words taken over from other languages by adding standard English plural endings, so my usage preference is actually 'viruses'.
That's to much reading. :laugh:
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...is probably viruses[^] This community announcement brought to you by: Procrastination Why do something incredibly important right now when you can find a hundred usless things to do instead! Yeah, one of those days...
cheers Chris Maunder
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...is probably viruses[^] This community announcement brought to you by: Procrastination Why do something incredibly important right now when you can find a hundred usless things to do instead! Yeah, one of those days...
cheers Chris Maunder
Indeed. I watched the 60 minutes bill gates yesterday where he was showing off the fact he owns Leonardo DaVinci's private manuscripts all written in 'mirror' text (they think because he was left handed). Naturally, this intrigued my procrastonative mind so I googled it to find out that some people can do this naturally. So I tried it, and lo and behold. I proudly proclaim to my wife 'Hey, guess what, I can write backwards' to which she responds "If you stopped doing all this stupid shit you might get some things done...." ˙˙˙looɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd sɐʍ ʇᴉ *ʇɥƃnoɥʇ* I *sigh*
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virii [^] "Virii is in fact an INCORRECT pluralization of "virus", however, some retard keeps resubmitting it as the plural form." :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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