Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:
> 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...
Omnibus is the dative/ablative plural of Latin _omnis_ "all". Omnibi is the sort
of thing Gollum would have said if he were a Roman.
--
Andreas Johansson