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trevi
on Dec 3, 2010
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The dark side of open source conferences [about wo...
By the way who really uses fora as the plural of forum? To me it seems at best arbitrary, at worst pretentious.
mahmud
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Pretension and grammar-Nazism are the virii of online communication.
iwr
on Dec 3, 2010
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You must mean pretentiousness, surely.
mahmud
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"Pretension and
grammar-Nazism
": in this phrase, the first part is honeycomb, and the second is a bear-trap.
Have a nice day.
Waywocket
on Dec 3, 2010
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I see what you did there.
moeffju
on Dec 3, 2010
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Wait, you mean viruses? :)
forgotusername
on Dec 3, 2010
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I'm sorry, next time I'll uses "forumses". Damn ecomony got all these morans backs up!
trevi
on Dec 4, 2010
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You're implying that fora is the only acceptable way of writing the plural of "forum". That's nonsense, forums is perfectly valid English. My point was: why forum/fora? Why not creditor/creditores, or abdomen/abdomina?
forgotusername
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I'm honestly not sure. Perhaps this topic would be more appropriate for a linguistics forum?
petercooper
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The same people who say "mouses" instead of "mice."
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