BW> I suspect that if you did a poll the overwhelming majority of
BW> those people would know perfectly well what the English plural of
BW> 'box' is, but continue to say 'boxen' for nerdy jargon reasons.
"I have a herd of boxen to care for"
from Ox, pl. Oxen
Best regards,
Frantisek Vlcek
"people are stupid" ... you did now.. :)
Tom C.
From: Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: OT: Eliminating 'virii' ( was Re: Anyone still using windows ME
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:59:55 +0100
Hi,
> But hey, I a
ing 'virii' ( was Re: Anyone still using
windows ME
Bob W wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>
>
>>This has actually nothing to do with regular languages. It's just
>>computer lingo. The jargon of nerds, if you will.
>>
>>
>
>I doubt that.
>
>
>
Hi,
> But hey, I agree with you that people are stupid and say stuff wrong
> because they are ignorant.
I did not say people are stupid.
--
Cheers,
Bob
Bob W wrote:
Hi,
This has actually nothing to do with regular languages. It's just
computer lingo. The jargon of nerds, if you will.
I doubt that.
As another example, one unix, several unices. And several boxes running
a unix version is often referred to as "boxen".
It's nerd jargo
Hi,
> This has actually nothing to do with regular languages. It's just
> computer lingo. The jargon of nerds, if you will.
I doubt that.
> As another example, one unix, several unices. And several boxes running
> a unix version is often referred to as "boxen".
It's nerd jargon if they know t
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