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Plural for "Forum"?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:34 pm
by Scour
Hello!

1 Forum

2 or more "Forum" = ?

My translator says the word is "fora". But never heard of this word

Thanks

PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:50 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Going by the latin from which the word is derived, the plural should be Fora I believe.... in practice, english is a stupid language, and if there was ANY demand for the word, it'd quickly become proper to say Forums :roll:

PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:17 pm
by Scour
dolphinius_rex wrote:Going by the latin from which the word is derived, the plural should be Fora I believe.... in practice, english is a stupid language, and if there was ANY demand for the word, it'd quickly become proper to say Forums :roll:


Thank you, dolphinius_rex :)

I´m writing a Curriculum vitae, and it´s not easy for me to translate my german "Lebenslauf" in english.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:08 am
by Bhairav
Fora it is.
Even the plural of "Medium" is "Media"..
Stupid Greeks and their Latin..
:P

PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:20 am
by Alejandra
It's like the plural of curriculum, curricula.

Well in spanish is quite simple for forum, singular Foro, Plural Foros :)

PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:30 pm
by dodecahedron
Bhairav wrote:Stupid Greeks and their Latin..

LOL

PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:59 pm
by Scour
Bhairav wrote:Fora it is.
Even the plural of "Medium" is "Media"..
Stupid Greeks and their Latin..
:P


:)

The greeks use latin? I thought the italian do it

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:13 am
by Bhairav
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin

Latin alphabet was derived from the Greek alphabet..

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:02 am
by dodecahedron
but still "Stupid Greeks and their Latin.."
maybe should've said "Stupid Romans and their Latin.."

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:20 am
by Bhairav
dodecahedron wrote:but still "Stupid Greeks and their Latin.."
maybe should've said "Stupid Romans and their Latin.."


Semantics.. :P

Inter nos, multum in parvo!

PostPosted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 2:06 am
by dodecahedron
what does that mean?

PostPosted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:25 am
by Bhairav
Between us, much in little!
:D