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Please fix this mistake on the OE website

ramza
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I have been logging on your website for a long time now. Unfortunately, I have kept noticing the same mistake during all these years. The plural for "Forum" is "Fora" and not "Forums" (it's a latin word after all). I was being patient at first but you really need to fix this since it makes the site look pretty bad.

 

I would appreciate if you replaced the text with any of the following suggestions or any other suitable alternative:

 

Community

Forum (or Fora)

Message Boards

Edited by ramza

"Ooo, squirrels, Boo! I know I saw them! Quick, throw nuts!" -Minsc

"I am a well-known racist in the Realms! Elves? Dwarves? Ha! Kill'em all! Humans rule! -Me

 

Volourn will never grow up, he's like the Black Peter Pan, here to tell you that it might be great to always be a child, but everybody around is gonna hate it. :p

I don't think forum is a Latin word now - it's an English word of Latin origin. There's no requirement that English words follow the rules of another language for pluralising nouns.

 

Also, I think we can move this to Way-Off Topic.

"An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)

Yeah, there's no obligation to pluralize loanwords in their original form. The word is already an established word in English, we can do whatever with it now.

kirottu said:
I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden.

 

It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai.

So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds

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There's a very interesting discussion on that forum concerning this subject:

 

http://www.painintheenglish.com/post.php?id=627

"Ooo, squirrels, Boo! I know I saw them! Quick, throw nuts!" -Minsc

"I am a well-known racist in the Realms! Elves? Dwarves? Ha! Kill'em all! Humans rule! -Me

 

Volourn will never grow up, he's like the Black Peter Pan, here to tell you that it might be great to always be a child, but everybody around is gonna hate it. :p

Hahhah, descriptivists vs. prescriptivists is always serious and grossly funny discussion.

kirottu said:
I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden.

 

It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai.

So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds

BTW the Minsc quote in your sig is maybe my favorite eva.

People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair.

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Yeah, it made me roflmao too

"Ooo, squirrels, Boo! I know I saw them! Quick, throw nuts!" -Minsc

"I am a well-known racist in the Realms! Elves? Dwarves? Ha! Kill'em all! Humans rule! -Me

 

Volourn will never grow up, he's like the Black Peter Pan, here to tell you that it might be great to always be a child, but everybody around is gonna hate it. :p

*just sighs and rolls her eyes at romza"

well

whatever

nevermind

haha, funny to view from the perspective of someone who studies language. agreed with musopticon?.

Citizen of a country with a racist, hypocritical majority

Yep

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""Savior, conqueror, hero, villain. You are all things, Revan

Well, since I'm sorta antidescriptivist, this entire argument makes me roll around on the ground and sing about rabbits.
Antidescriptivist? Probably not what you meant, eh? :lol:

Citizen of a country with a racist, hypocritical majority

I don't think forum is a Latin word now - it's an English word of Latin origin. There's no requirement that English words follow the rules of another language for pluralising nouns.

 

Also, I think we can move this to Way-Off Topic.

Fio cries inside, just a single tear.

 

Fora was his most favoritest word ever.

There was a time when I questioned the ability for the schizoid to ever experience genuine happiness, at the very least for a prolonged segment of time. I am no closer to finding the answer, however, it has become apparent that contentment is certainly a realizable goal. I find these results to be adequate, if not pleasing. Unfortunately, connection is another subject entirely. When one has sufficiently examined the mind and their emotional constructs, connection can be easily imitated. More data must be gleaned and further collated before a sufficient judgment can be reached.

It's penes you fool.

This poppy**** is exactly why if I ever build a website, I shall call it "Message Board".

*just sighs and rolls her eyes at romza"

 

Yeah! Take THAT romza.

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(Approved by Fio, so feel free to use it)

Don't be like that, Nick. You wouldn't like it if someone sighed and rolled their eyes at you. It's a traumatising experience.

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*just sighs and rolls her eyes at romza"

 

Yeah! Take THAT romza.

 

:rolleyes:

"Ooo, squirrels, Boo! I know I saw them! Quick, throw nuts!" -Minsc

"I am a well-known racist in the Realms! Elves? Dwarves? Ha! Kill'em all! Humans rule! -Me

 

Volourn will never grow up, he's like the Black Peter Pan, here to tell you that it might be great to always be a child, but everybody around is gonna hate it. :p
  • 2 weeks later...

HAHAHAHA

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