Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, J Martin Rushton wrote: > > > > On 17/04/15 16:04, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said by

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/04/15 16:04, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >>> It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said >>> by scisso

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/04/15 02:59, Peter Lawler wrote: > [OT ALERT] > > On 17/04/15 02:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> clamav is a scanner that is designed to detect viruses (virii I >> should use for plural as it is Latin word) > I believe this 'rule' in English is

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said by >> scissoring his phrases ;-) > > English people (excludes USA people) The first thing I learned what US peop

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said by > scissoring his phrases ;-) English people (excludes USA people) should always try to speak simple, jargon-free, easily understandable and logically expressed English es

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Александр Кириллов
But being not native English speaker, I use it ("not native English speaker") Figured as much, which is why I mentioned it ;) as an excuse for being unable to pronounce anything. Not as if most English speakers can pronounce many English words ... ttfn :) It is amazing how much one ca

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, April 17, 2015 12:50 am, Peter Lawler wrote: > On 17/04/15 12:31, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> But being not native >> English speaker, I use it ("not native English speaker") > Figured as much, which is why I mentioned it ;) > >> as an excuse for >> being unable to pronounce anything. > Not a

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-17, Peter Lawler wrote: > [OT ALERT] > > On 17/04/15 02:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> clamav is a scanner that is designed to detect viruses (virii I >> should use for plural as it is Latin word) > I believe this 'rule' in English is misunderstood by many and as a > general rule of th

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-16 Thread Peter Lawler
On 17/04/15 12:31, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > But being not native > English speaker, I use it ("not native English speaker") Figured as much, which is why I mentioned it ;) > as an excuse for > being unable to pronounce anything. Not as if most English speakers can pronounce many English words .

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Thu, April 16, 2015 8:59 pm, Peter Lawler wrote: > [OT ALERT] > > On 17/04/15 02:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> clamav is a scanner that is designed to detect viruses (virii I should >> use >> for plural as it is Latin word) > I believe this 'rule' in English is misunderstood by many and as a >

[CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-16 Thread Peter Lawler
[OT ALERT] On 17/04/15 02:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > clamav is a scanner that is designed to detect viruses (virii I should use > for plural as it is Latin word) I believe this 'rule' in English is misunderstood by many and as a general rule of thumb... tl;dr: Words from Old English that came i