Wednesday, March 28, 2007: Intellectual curiosity

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Postby Fritz » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:46 pm

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Postby Rikirk » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:26 am

Dont you think the sarcophogi would be locked?

For one thing the museum would lock them to prevent breakage and discourage looting of the mummy, but then again...the ancients probobly did this too.
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Postby Tabris_The_17th » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:03 am

Dont you think the sarcophogi would be locked?

For one thing the museum would lock them to prevent breakage and discourage looting of the mummy, but then again...the ancients probobly did this too.
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Postby Lissou » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:38 am

After checking, I can tell you that both "uses" and "i" are used, "i" being the "official" plural form, and that sarcophagus itself, etymologically, comes from "flesh-eating stone", so misspelling it wouldn't be that outrageous (it would keep in the spirit) except for the fact that it would be using an adjective as a noun, and I don't think doing it is very common in English.

It's good to remember that Ozy is a kid, despite his wiseness... I mean wisdom. (And yes, I could have corrected it directly instead of leaving the wrong word, but I've been taugh to leave my mistakes so that people could learn from them. And I do what I want. Na.)
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Postby nickspoon » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:43 am

It's not like we're consistent anyway. We don't say "My computer has viri."
That's because 'virus' isn't actually a Latin word. We do say "radii" or "cacti", do we not?
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Postby Lissou » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:28 am

It's not like we're consistent anyway. We don't say "My computer has viri."
That's because 'virus' isn't actually a Latin word. We do say "radii" or "cacti", do we not?
But you say "pizzas", not "pizze". Granded, it comes from a living language, Italian, not a dead one, but why the distinction?
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Postby CodeCat » Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:44 am

I've been wondering that myself. Why construct an English plural for some words, and use a foreign plural for others?
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Postby Kyler Thatch » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:19 pm

Because we're fickle and arbitrary and used whatever sounded good at the time. :-P
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:22 pm

Why construct an English plural for some words, and use a foreign plural for others?
Probably because of all the centuries that Latin was used for formality. Italian doesn't get used much in English except for musical directions.
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Postby thymol » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:14 am

That's because 'virus' isn't actually a Latin word.
Nope, virus is Latin. It means "poison".
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Postby Glenn565 » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:53 am

That's because 'virus' isn't actually a Latin word.
Nope, virus is Latin. It means "poison".
Quite fitting, actually.
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Postby Luke B. » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:55 am

That's because 'virus' isn't actually a Latin word.
Nope, virus is Latin. It means "poison".
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Postby Muninn » Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:27 pm

That's a very nicely drawn sarcophagus.
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