Arrrrrrgh its not flaming 'virii'....

**confus-ed** · December 2nd, 2002, 08:20 AM

Just a quick bored rant....

The plural of virus is viruses even in American ! NOT 'virii' - stop it off

You know who you are....

**NooNoo** · December 2nd, 2002, 08:25 AM

mouse, mice and mouses
cacti or cactuses
octupi or octpuses
Whataclotamus....

**confus-ed** · December 2nd, 2002, 08:54 AM

There are American mouses but no British, we have mice, American cactuses and British Cactii and also American octopuses and British octopi which is also called a devilfish...

So is that WhataClotAmUses or WhataClotAmI ?

**Cobra X** · December 2nd, 2002, 09:11 AM

Virii. Virii. The word didn't exist before, so I just invented it.

Everyone send me a dollar when you use my word from now on.

**+Daemon+** · December 2nd, 2002, 10:34 AM

need a virii construction kit

**Cobra X** · December 2nd, 2002, 10:54 AM

Originally posted by +Daemon+
need a virii construction kit

Are you selling one? Because if you're making money off it, you got to pay me royalties for use of the term "virii". It's a copyrighted word.

**+Daemon+** · December 2nd, 2002, 11:21 AM

Originally posted by Cobra Tha Funky Homo Sapien
Are you selling one? Because if you're making money off it, you got to pay me royalties for use of the term "virii". It's a copyrighted word.

hehe, yeah by me

**+Daemon+** · December 2nd, 2002, 11:36 AM

here is my proof

**Wayward Clam** · December 2nd, 2002, 11:48 AM

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles
Or rhinoceroses
I only like
Hippopotamuses
And Hippopotamuses like me too!

-The Three Stooges

**geoscomp** · December 2nd, 2002, 01:00 PM

THE PARADOX OF ENGLISH

Let's face it: English can be a confusing language. For instance, there is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If vegetarians eat vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposite, while quite a few and quite a lot are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the other day. Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

**drewmaztech** · December 2nd, 2002, 01:07 PM

Elvises or Elvii?

And finally - Is it "Zee" or "Zed"???

**Cobra X** · December 2nd, 2002, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by +Daemon+
here is my proof

that = teh fraud.

**LagMonster** · December 2nd, 2002, 01:18 PM

If you completely understand what virii means.. than why is it not a word?

Because some overpaid team of geeks have not 'officially' dubed it a word?

virii sounds much better than viruses IMO.