Originally Posted by YoDude

New word... Forucopia.

"Forums" is natural for american english speakers...

Originally Posted by Sopwith

The vast majority of "american english speakers" had likely never heard the word "forum" before it became popular on the internet.

Since I married young, my husband Craig was the first lover I ever had, and I had always wondered how he stacked up against other men in physical appearance, as well as in lovemaking ability. But I never actually though of satisfying my curiosity until recently. When I did, I ended up being both pleased and disappointed.

About a year ago I attended my high-school class reunion, where I encountered Dave, an old friend of mine from those days, and after we talked for a while I decided that if I wanted to find out what it would be like with another man, he would be a good choice.

Dave and I lived in different cities, but over the months we talked many times by phone and via e-mail, innocently but with increasing intimacy. Finally it got to the point where we agreed to meet at a hotel midway between our two towns.

I was very nervous and excited, and my hormones seemed to be going wild as I approached the meeting place. Dave was waiting for me when I got there, and seemed very happy to see me. He took me up to the room he had rented. He was very courteous and didn't push anything, and we just talked for a while. But at that point I was at least as anxious as he was, and finally I lay down across the bed. He moved to me and kissed me, and in the middle of the kiss I felt his hands on my... (NSFTMO)

Originally Posted by lcuk

to throw a spanner into the works, tracy says:
its none of those options, its forii

her logic behind that - its like virus/virii
now, i have to sorta agree with her, since shes the boss in our house.

Writers who, searching for a fancy plural to virus, incorrectly write *viri are doubtless blindly applying an overreaching -us => -i rule. This mis-inflects many words. For example, status and hiatus only change the length of the final vowel; genus goes to genera; corpus goes to corpora. Others are even worse if this rule is mis-applied, like syllabus, caucus, octopus, mandamus, and rebus.

Anyway, Latin already had a word viri, but it was the nominative plural not of virus (slime, poison, or venom), but of vir (man), which as it turns out is also a 2nd declension noun. I do not believe that writers of English who write viri are intentionally speaking of men. And although there actually is a viri form for virus, it's the genitive singular[1], not the nominative plural. And we certainly don't grab for genitive singulars for the plurals when we've started out with a nominative. Such hanky panky would certainly get you talked about, and probably your hand slapped as well.

Those confused souls who write *virii are tacitly positing the existence of the non-word *virius, and declining it as though it were like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing[2], but that's just reaching. *Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie.

The crucial problem here is that, classically speaking, there appears to be no recorded use of virus in the plural. It was a 2nd declension noun ending in -us, which is rather common, but it was also a neuter, which is rather rare. I could only come up with three such 2nd declension neuters: virus (some poison), pelagus (the sea, usually poetically), and vulgus (the crowd). None appear to admit plurals. Perhaps this is because they are mass nouns, not count nouns. [3]

Originally Posted by YoDude

Not true.

I was an avid reader of the "Letter of the Month" in Penthouse Forum magazine when I was but a bald faced boy of 14.




Long before I knew of this "internet" you speak of.

Originally Posted by Sopwith

Sure, but I wouldn't expect anyone who describes himself as a keen reader to be representative of the majority of any nation. People who enjoy reading will always be a minority...

Originally Posted by Sopwith

...Other than that, cool story Somehow, it made me suddenly realize what people intend to use an iPad for... and it isn't reading