Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:34:20PM -0500, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> The thing about _radii_ is that the pl ending is still only _-i_. If
> _radius_ pluralizes as __radii_, then analogy would produce _viri_ as the pl
> of _virus_. If _virii_ was correct, then the pl of _radius_ would ought to
> be _radiii_!
It doesn't matter that the *plural ending* is -i. It only matters that it
*ends* in -ii. People tend to get confused easily about that kind of thing.

--
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
Conlang code:
CU !lh:m cN:R:S:G a+ y n2d:1d !R* A-- E L* N1 Id:m k- ia- p+ m- o+ P-- d* b+++ lainesco