[muglo] Re: Beg pardon! Help requested

on 5/27/03 12:23 PM, Eric D. at hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> on 27/5/03 11:50 AM, Chris at kristoff1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> Most viruses (or virii, or "bugs") that are forwarded are automatically
>> forwarded when the virus opens itself and runs on a PC. I don't know of any
>> Mac users that figure "well, I can't open this attachment, so I'll just
>> forward it on to all my friends in my address book".
> 
> As a point of clarification (one of my pet peeves)... virii is a
> non-existent word. Vir means man in Latin, and viri is the plural, men.
> Virii would be mens ;).
> 
> The other consideration is that "virus" had a different meaning from what we
> take it to mean now. This means that, since virus is not actually the Latin
> word, we pluralise it using English rules (i.e. viruses).
> 
> ... so, your main spelling is the correct one.
> 
> I noticed that virii became popular with the computer crowd a few years ago,
> but its use has since been relegated to the side-lines as more people
> understand the word's epistemology.
> 
> L8r, Eric.

Thanks, Eric. I seem to recall a discussion along these lines a while back.
I realize that "viruses" is the correct pluralization. The reason I included
"virii" was to (obscurely) reference that discussion. Sorry if the humour
wasn't obvious.

Chris  ;-)


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