Hello Robert, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:15:21 -0600 GMT (06/03/03, 19:15 +0700 GMT), Robert C Wittig wrote:
MP>> People who talk about virii try to make a plural of a plural. :-) > Actually, the 'accepted' plural for 'computer virus' is 'computer > viruses'... but I prefer to use virii... > a) because it looks cool, and > b) because it is used a lot among virus and malscript authors. You have reasons. Unlike Latin (and Mark is perfectly correct about Latin grammar), English is a living language and changes over time. I personally prefer 'virsuses' (the word), as this is used by Trend-Micro in their newsletter, and it feels correct to me, too (not cool, but that is a matter of opinion). I am not in touch with malscript authors and don't consider them an authority on the English language, though. > I hadn't intended to start an off-topic debate. Too late. I haven't seen any trouts flying lately, so let's continue until the mods wake up. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "It's best for employers that I not work with people." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/5 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
