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Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong – Back to Reason

4 points by mrfusion 6y ago

jjgreen 6y ago
Seems peculiar that a "former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus" would use "coronaviri".
- drKarl 6y ago
  Coronaviri is the plural of coronavirus. The virus that causes the Covid-19 disease is the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is a virus of the type Coronavirus. That means, there are other virus which are Coronavirus, hence if you want to refer to them as a group it would be correct to say coronaviri. If you re-read the article now knowing that coronaviri is the plural of coronavirus, you'll see every time it refers to coronaviri it is in plural (i.e. "is related to other coronaviri")
  - jjgreen 6y ago
    https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-plural-of-virus-112199 https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-plural-of-virus-112199
    - drKarl 6y ago
      It makes sense. I like to use datum as singular of data(or a piece of data), although I know data is also correct. So if anything it would be virus-vira, and not virus-viri, so coronavirus-coronavira. When I was in high school I remember visiting sites with tutorials and info on hacking and they had H/P/C/V/A (Hacking/Phreaking/Cracking/Virii/Anarchy) so it was using Virii as plural of virus (computer virus), so that stuck in my mind.
      - jjgreen 6y ago
        It's a natural and common extrapolation, but not one that I'd expect to see from a scientist, particularly a biologist. I can't see the original article due to the paywall, but I understand the the German plural is Viruses, as in English. All very odd.
  - mrfusion 6y ago
    I just put “s” after everything. Feels more natural. We had a guy at work who said “indici” for “indexes”. Ugg (I think op sucessfully nerd sniped us)
- elmerfud 6y ago
  The article was written and published in German and this is a translation to English. I do not know if the author translated it himself or another but this can easily explain if you find some word choices you're not used to as there are several words and phrases that would not be something a native speaker would normally use.
  - jjgreen 6y ago
    Perhaps, but I see no translator credited, and Latin is the universal language ...
bE9a3S5So8igd3 6y ago
Counter-narrative. Flagged!

4 points by mrfusion 6y ago

Seems peculiar that a "former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus" would use "coronaviri".

drKarl 6y ago
Coronaviri is the plural of coronavirus. The virus that causes the Covid-19 disease is the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is a virus of the type Coronavirus. That means, there are other virus which are Coronavirus, hence if you want to refer to them as a group it would be correct to say coronaviri. If you re-read the article now knowing that coronaviri is the plural of coronavirus, you'll see every time it refers to coronaviri it is in plural (i.e. "is related to other coronaviri")
- jjgreen 6y ago
  https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-plural-of-virus-112199 https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-plural-of-virus-112199
  - drKarl 6y ago
    It makes sense. I like to use datum as singular of data(or a piece of data), although I know data is also correct. So if anything it would be virus-vira, and not virus-viri, so coronavirus-coronavira. When I was in high school I remember visiting sites with tutorials and info on hacking and they had H/P/C/V/A (Hacking/Phreaking/Cracking/Virii/Anarchy) so it was using Virii as plural of virus (computer virus), so that stuck in my mind.
    - jjgreen 6y ago
      It's a natural and common extrapolation, but not one that I'd expect to see from a scientist, particularly a biologist. I can't see the original article due to the paywall, but I understand the the German plural is Viruses, as in English. All very odd.
- mrfusion 6y ago
  I just put “s” after everything. Feels more natural. We had a guy at work who said “indici” for “indexes”. Ugg (I think op sucessfully nerd sniped us)
elmerfud 6y ago
The article was written and published in German and this is a translation to English. I do not know if the author translated it himself or another but this can easily explain if you find some word choices you're not used to as there are several words and phrases that would not be something a native speaker would normally use.
- jjgreen 6y ago
  Perhaps, but I see no translator credited, and Latin is the universal language ...

bE9a3S5So8igd3 6y ago

Counter-narrative. Flagged!