Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2008, 4:54 |
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Oh, "bus"! I should've caught that. Now I feel very stupid. :S
As for the plural of omnibus... I guess that'll have to be "omnibuses",
since "omnibus" is a Latin plural dative, and there most certainly weren't
any buses in ancient Rome! (Although Usborne, the publisher, might
disagree...)
Eugene
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
wrote:
> 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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