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Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

From:Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Friday, May 30, 2008, 4:46
Eugene Oh wrote:
> I am utterly confused. What are crosstown bi runs, and what are bii (and > what have they got to do with virii)??
We're making fake latin plurals from singulars ending in -us. Either -i (as in viri <- virus) or -ii (as in virii <- virus). So bi and bii would come from "bus". Altho in this context "bus" actually comes from "omnibus" --- I don't know what the correct plural of it is, but it's plausible that it is "omnibi" in which case getting around using bi instead of driving might be a reasonable thing to do... -- Tristan.

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Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Ph. D. <phil@...>
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