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December 2nd, 2002, 08:20 AM
#1
Geezer
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December 2nd, 2002, 08:25 AM
#2
Driver Terrier
mouse, mice and mouses
cacti or cactuses
octupi or octpuses
Whataclotamus....
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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December 2nd, 2002, 08:54 AM
#3
Geezer
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 ?
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December 2nd, 2002, 09:11 AM
#4
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.
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December 2nd, 2002, 10:34 AM
#5
Registered User
need a virii construction kit
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December 2nd, 2002, 10:54 AM
#6
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.
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December 2nd, 2002, 11:21 AM
#7
Registered User
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
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December 2nd, 2002, 11:36 AM
#8
Registered User
here is my proof
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December 2nd, 2002, 11:48 AM
#9
Registered User
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
Flash! Don't heckle the supervillain!
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:00 PM
#10
Registered User
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.
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:07 PM
#11
Registered User
Elvises or Elvii?
And finally - Is it "Zee" or "Zed"???
Vote DrewmazTech for President!
"tis better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool then open your mouth and remove all doubt" Mark Twain
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:10 PM
#12
Originally posted by +Daemon+
here is my proof
that = teh fraud.
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:18 PM
#13
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.
Last edited by LagMonster; December 2nd, 2002 at 01:26 PM.
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:24 PM
#14
Registered User
The proper term for multiple instances of a virus is actually "Kazaa".
Flash! Don't heckle the supervillain!
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December 2nd, 2002, 01:26 PM
#15
Registered User
Originally posted by Wayward Clam
The proper term for multiple instances of a virus is actually "Kazaa".
hehe
p2p period
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