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Re: another VX site?
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:51:37 GMT
I'm really happy to see this: [snip] In the English language, the standard plural of virus is viruses. [snip] I have used this pluralization for 20 years. :-) - ferg -- "Oliver Schneider" <Borbarad () gmxpro net> wrote:
By the way, there's no such word as "viri", and people who refer to "viri" put themselves firmly in a group that you possibly don't want to be seen as being a member of.
Have you consulted your favorite Latin dictionary in this matter? The word "viri" exists and has the (not too harmless) meaning: "men". But I agree in one aspect: I wouldn't like to be seen as an Ancient Roman ;-P Need proof? Let's ask one resource sometimes regarded as reliable and sometimes not :-D ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus Cheers, Oliver PS: Yes, the word "virus" stems from the Latin language, thus it is correct to look it up in a Latin dictionary ;) [snip] -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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