RE: Offtopic, but someone might know

From: "Mark Hippenstiel" <M.Hippenstiel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:34:09 +0100
You can of course start a big debate about wether a plural of a
latin-derived word needs to follow latin grammar or the grammar of the
langauge it has been adopted to. Phobias could well be phobiae, and
shurely plurals would be pluria...

Anyway, there's a nice document about why virii are viruses:

http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

Mark

I personally am a fan of the 4th declination theory :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Nuernberger [mailto:pen@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Posted At: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:47 PM
> Posted To: www.isaserver.org
> Conversation: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know
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> Try telling that to a medical (or classics) professor.
> 
> The plural for 'virus' is 'virii'. Common US slang terms the plural as
> 'viruses'.  Dictionaries are often incorrect, especially when 
> they bow to
> 'common usage' without including an explanation of proper 
> form and usage.
> 
> It is a Latin-derived word, hence the (to US minds) strange 
> pluralization,
> and all the classics professors everywhere are shuddering 
> because of it.
> 
> Here endeth the language lesson for today.
> 
> Paul Nuernberger
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Mann [mailto:Kennymann@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:04 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know
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> Plural for virus is viruses. 
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii
> <-- Can't find the word 
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virus <--
> Lists the plural about it. n. pl. vi*rus*es
> 
> I'm not trying to one-up you, the department I work in 
> debated about it.
> :-)
> 
> Kenny Mann
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: William Robertson [mailto:robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:21 PM
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> >Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know
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> >Firstly, your plural of virus is virii...
> >
> >Don't know if it is of relevance though, but after applying
> >the Blaster patch from Microsoft, and then again with 
> >KB824146, I found that workstations would create some *very* 
> >strange-looking directories on their own hard drives, as well 
> >as any shares that they Write Access to. The directory names 
> >were just long string combinations, eg 
> >Wekdjh987sevbncxv098kjh, and then sometimes they would 
> >actually have the update.exe in them as well.
> >
> >Anyway, managed to clean most of these up...
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Strangways [mailto:strangconst@xxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: 30 October 2003 04:18 AM
> >To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> >Subject: [isalist] Offtopic, but someone might know
> >
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> >I am noticing files that seem to appear in various folders
> >they are always named "~" , and with no extension. I have in 
> >the past tried to find if they where related to a virus, but I 
> >have found no links. I am up to date with Norton Corporate 
> >Antivirus and it does not see any viri (is that the correct 
> >pluralization ?). OS is win 2000 current SP's and updates.
> >
> >Any idea's or BTDT's on this problem ?
> >
> >Thanks to all in advance,
> >Mark S
> >
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