Has anyone seen anything about a release date for Linux Mint 14 64 Bit with KDE?

AV3 arvimide at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 7 17:26:56 UTC 2012


On Dec/7/2012 6:0237 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 7 December 2012 04:56, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 07/12/12 15:15, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/06/2012 07:28 AM, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 6 December 2012 14:23, Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> fora
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>> According to Fowler's the preferred plural is forums.
>>>
>>>
>>> Liam is a professional writer, so he can take liberties. :) Ric
>>
>>
>> 'Fora' is correct.
>>
>> But so is 'forums'.
>
> :¬D Something like that, yes.
>
> The difference being that to some people - such as those of us who
> have a vague notion of how to form plurals in Latin or other foreign
> languages - one sounds natural and right and one sounds clashing, ugly
> and wrong.
>
> "This school is where all the local childs are educated."
>
> "The traps in the attic caught several mouses which I fed to the
> gooses belonging to the farmer opposite. He has a field of sheeps and
> some oxes, and he raises some deers for venison."
>
> "I posted a message in three forums about this but got no help."
>


In English, popular usage reigns, there never having been an academy of 
the language. Dictionaries had some authority, starting with Dr. 
Johnson's, but the Oxford English has no acceptance outside the British 
isles. America and other territory with first-language English even 
follow their own spelling conventions.


The plurals you prefer go back to the days when Latin and Greek were 
taught in most secondary schools, but today they seem like class 
distinction signals for intellectual snobs. There are no more fora in 
the auditoria, and there soon won't be even one datum left to support 
your data.


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