On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:52 pm, Robin Turner wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). > > Sorry to be pedantic, but the plural of "virus" in English > is "viruses". The -a suffix is the plural for, IIRC, second > declension neuter nouns. If you want the Latin plural, it's > "viri" (NOT "virii" - that would ony be the case if the > singular were "virius"). > > Latin is a horrible language.
OK Stephen and sir Robin, thanks for the correction. Nevertheless it still puzzles me, why M$ pulls those virus-filters off the net ? One could say that Linux mailservers with RAV on them act like vacuumcleaners in a very dusty room (the Net). By turning them off all the viri in the world will hit those windows-boxes like flies are attracted to other kinds of s***. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.21 Brought to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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