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Mea culpa on the viruses. I myself will often point out how silly it is to stick an English word in the middle of a foreign language and decorate it with the la
by biohacker42 18y ago
Mea culpa on the viruses. I myself will often point out how silly it is to stick an English word in the middle of a foreign language and decorate it with the language's plural suffix. It's particularly trendy do that in Eastern Europe, where I'm from. And as you say it is an attempt to sound more educated, however the ironic thing is that it just makes you look like you don't speak either English or your native tongue correctly.
Or in my case neither English nor Latin, thanks for correcting me.
- electromagnetic 18y agoI used to think virii was correct, but being a writer I developed the habit of obsessing over the meaning of words. So one day while writing a piece I happened to mention 'virii', well lets just say one day after my deadline I knew the method of pluralizing neutral second diminutive latin words... which basically is, you don't. And thank the holy stars I was friends with my editor, cause he covered my ass many times. Although I produced the best work, so I guess it was in his own, and our bosses, best interest that he cover a slip up from the boss.