My box got formatted. :\

[YtseJam]

Damnit... stupid stupid virii... grrr... :\
Using my neighbor's box... :\ have no time to fix mine, am full with final exams... blah... hmpf. Don't bother to reply to this, since I won't be able to read it anyhow... :)

Godamnit, 6 years... all gone. Hmpf... even lost my VC++ project, maybe I backed-up it... heehee, should check that. ;)

Okie, back to studying. Lat`.

[Scarface2k1]

HA!

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Damn, that sucks. :(

That reminds me, I've got over 4 gigs of mp3s and about twice as many picture files that I need to back up... :eek: Yikes!

[Matt]

Yes you should always backup if possible. I've had hard disk problems before.

and what sort of pictures are those picture files Sargeant. I hope you're talking smilies and such? :D

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Oh yes, smilies of course. :D I've kept every single bitmap frame of every single smilie I've ever made. :eek: That's a helluva lot of frames, considering that some of my smilies can have upwards of 30 frames. :)

[rm']

Originally posted by nant`
virii...

It's virus, not virius. Therefore, it's viri, not virii.

[Scarface2k1]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
Originally posted by nant`
virii...

It's virus, not virius. Therefore, it's viri, not virii.
picky picky arent we not RM?

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

So.... Would the plural of Lexus be Lexi? :D

[rm']

Originally posted by Scarface2k1
arent we not

I can't help it! You folks keep on give me reasons to be! :p :D

[Scarface2k1]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
Originally posted by Scarface2k1
arent we not

I can't help it! You folks keep on give me reasons to be! :p :D
TOO FRIKEN BAD :mad:

now you're gonna live your entire life regreting that social darwinism hasnt gotten ahead of all the "Absent minded" people :eek::rolleyes::D

[Twilightseer]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
Originally posted by nant`
virii...

It's virus, not virius. Therefore, it's viri, not virii.

How come "virii" is not listed as a valid plural for "virus" at http://www.dictionary.com?

[Scarface2k1]

heh Retards. :D

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Anyways, the plural of "virus" in my dictionary is "viruses"... It's in a Webster's dictionary, not my 73-lb. multilingual dictionary. :p

[rm']

Originally posted by Twilightseer
How come "virii" is not listed as a valid plural for "virus" at http://www.dictionary.com?

I explained that. When you pluralize a 'us', it becomes an 'i'.

Take radius. You have an 'i' before the 'us', therefore, the plural of radius is 'radii'.

Now look at cactus. You have a 't' before 'us'. So, the plural form is 'cacti'. You only get double i when there is an 'i' before 'us'.

In conclusion, dictionary.com and myself are correct. Webster's is not.

[rm']

You wish to know why? When ever you pluralize a word that ends in a long vowel sound, such as 'antenna', the ending is changed to a long 'e' sound ('eee'). So, antenna becomes antennae, and virus becomes viri (exception to the case are words like banana and cacti. It's pronounced 'cac-aye'. There are specific cases when the end is pronounced 'eee', and what these cases are, I do not know).

Now, take radius... you have an 'i' that you must pronounce; ray-dee-us

The plural form should be, according to the rule, 'ray-dee'; however, there is still that extra 'i', thus, it becomes 'ray-dee-aye'

With virus, there is no extra 'i', thus, instead of being pronounced 've-ree-aye', it's pronounced 've-ree'.

[Scarface2k1]

HEY LOOK EVERYBODY WE GOT AN ENGLISH TEACHER HERE, LETS ALL CLAP FOR HIM. :D

:clap::clap:

[Edited by Scarface2k1 on 05-01-2001 at 06:30 PM]

[John M]

i saw a flock of moosen.

i bought 2 boxen of donuts.

[rm']

"It's pronounced 'learnd', Pepe, 'learrnd'."

[Twilightseer]

I think I'll stick to 'viruses', anyway :)

[Scarface2k1]

i really dont care either

[rm']

Originally posted by Twilightseer
I think I'll stick to 'viruses', anyway :)

lol... you crazy Frenchmen ;)

[Scarface2k1]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
Originally posted by Twilightseer
I think I'll stick to 'viruses', anyway :)

lol... you crazy Frenchmen ;)

you wierd dictoral freakish person you RM

[Twilightseer]

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
Originally posted by Twilightseer
I think I'll stick to 'viruses', anyway :)

lol... you crazy Frenchmen ;)

He he ;)
The fact is this problem doesn't exist in French where the plural of 'virus' is....'virus' :)

[YtseJam]

What does it matter?... at least you understood what I wrote... sheesh.

Oh, heyz... I'm back. :)

[Scarface2k1]

yeah who really does care?

[rm']

Pedants.