Re: FN-FORUM Font Virii Warning for Steve Laird

date posted 22nd January 2002 20:28

Oh.. Ok.
I was actually under the impression that virii was singular and virus was
plural. I've totally lost all grounding for my superiority complex when
discussing those thingies that cause malicious damage on computers.

On 22/01/02 07:26 pm, "Vendetta Sales and Admin" [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:

> No. It would depend what declension it was. It's actually a rare second
> declension neuter noun, like pelagus and vulgus. Virus and vulgus DO NOT
> HAVE PLURALS. pelagus, the sea and cetus, a sea monster, do have plurals
> cete and pelage, so possibly you could use vire.
> Many people assume that everything ending in -us is second declension
> masculine, but it could quite easily be fourth declension feminine like
> domus (house/home).
> A second declension masculine noun virius (if there was one but there isn't)
> could have the plural virii. Its plural also can't be viri, as that means
> "of a man" (could be the same thing??).
>
> No way can it gain an i after the stem in the nominative or accusative
> plural--it's just not Roman!
>
> Kathy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Newman" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 6:12 PM
> Subject: RE: Re: FN-FORUM Font Virii Warning for Steve Laird
>
>
>> Doesn't that depend on whether virus is masculine or neutral though,
> Kathy?
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Vendetta Sales
>> and Admin
>> Sent: 22 January 2002 17:52
>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: Re: Re: FN-FORUM Font Virii Warning for Steve Laird
>>
>>
>> The plural of virus is NOT virii, why would it be? Sorry that's just a pet
>> peeve of mine. In English it is viruses, in Latin it is virus.
>>
>> Kathy
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Neelesh" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> To: "Steve Laird" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: Re: FN-FORUM Font Virii Warning for Steve Laird
>>
>>
>>> Yeah .. spooky.
>>> Sort it out mate.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Steve Laird" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:29 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Re: FN-FORUM Font
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Neelesh' wrote:
>>> ====
>>> - If it's a BT then thats a Bitstream font and can be purchased at their
>>> site
>>> - (result number 11):
>>> -
>>>
>>
> http://store.bitstream.com/searchresults.asp?category=&searchtext=Engravers&
>>> - platform=&format=&Search.x=55&Search.y=11
>>> - But Bitstream tend to make copies of other faces and by the looks of
>>> things
>>> - this is a copy of Copperplate which is very common.
>>> -
>>> - ----- Original Message -----
>>> - From: "David McEwen" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>> - To: "FN-FORUM" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>> - S ...'
>>>
>>>
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