Has anyone seen anything about a release date for Linux Mint 14 64 Bit with KDE?
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 13:09:59 UTC 2012
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 December 2012 12:28, Mark Widdicombe <markwiddicombe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6 December 2012 14:23, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> fora
>>
>> According to Fowler's the preferred plural is forums.
>
> It may prefer whatever it wishes; preference does not alter correctness.
>
> Index -> indices; vertex -> vertices; formula -> formulae; forum ->
> fora. And for that matter, octopus -> octopodes; rhinoceros ->
> rhinocerotes; penis -> penes, as per crisis -> crises.
I was once annoyed with "ubuntuforums" and "fedoraforums". Looking it
up I found that it's fora for a physical forum and forums for a
virtual forum. The latter probably came about because too many people
are too lazy to learn and use the proper plural...
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