Re: American football---where kickers get no respect.
- From: denver_state_philosophy_dept@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 14:33:19 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 30, 3:44 pm, one caspar milquetoast <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
attempted to undo thousands of years of civilization and common usage
and delivered a cretinous lecture:
On 30/07/2011 8:35 AM, Mo wrote:
On Jul 28, 5:43 pm, caspar milquetoast<b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28/07/2011 4:42 AM, Mo wrote:
On Jul 27, 5:28 pm, in the midst of serving up a heapin' helpin' of
abuse, our good friend caspar milquetoast<b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
reveals that he's no Latin scholar:
On 27/07/2011 12:48 PM, denver_state_philosophy_d...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
How would you know that, sir? Methinks you're making it all up.
A word to the wise, sir: when one is way out of one's depth, it is
always a good idea to stop digging.
Why? You've been digging frantically since the ill-fated day you added
this newsgroup to your failed collection of forums
[sic!]
Would you care to enlighten us talentless dullards why your hilariously
inept sic is employed on this occasion?
Look where the [sic!] is place, my friend. We'll make a Latin scholar
of you yet...
Hook, line, sinker, rod, fisherman and wharf.
There is nothing more amusing to the working journo than when some
jumped-up, pompous, pedantic windbag makes an absolute classic arse of
himself with some self-important pronouncement of grammatical
correction, proclaiming his tiny molecule of pretentious knowledge for
the benefit of we ignorant hacks.
In point of fact, Mowithey you illiterate buffoon, Latin terms adopted
into English take English plurals. In English, the plural of forum is forums.
Wrong. It is, indisputably, "fora".
The only exception to this general rule is when the Latin plural
has also been adopted through common usage, as in nebula and nebulae.
Good. At least you seem to understand what you are so foolishly trying
to undermine. That's encouraging.
I bet you're one of those prententious blowhards
Hmmmmm.... why did you use the term "blowhards"? With all that's
happened, was that a wise choice of vocabulary?
who refers to "octopi".
Of course that's the plural form. Of course, in your obsessional drive
to the demotic, you might believe that the hoi-polloi are incapable of
speaking correctly. Some of us have higher standards, obviously.
The plural of octopus is octopuses, and if it was pluralised in its
original context it would be octopodes, being of Greek origin, not Latin.
Every time you open your pompous mouth on the subject of grammar you end
up looking an even bigger fool than you started out, supposing such a
thing were possible. When will you learn?
Hmmmm. When you're trying to give an errant player or club member at
Perth-Bayswater RFC a hurry-up, do you send out a series of
"memorandums" or memoranda?
I think we know the answer.
.
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