[CrackMonkey] Re: breaking the ; habit (fwd)

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Mon Feb 14 11:07:32 PST 2000


Deirdre Saoirse writes:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Mike Goldman (whig at debian.org):
> > 
> > > Didn't SDS just get through explaining that the plural of virus is not
> > > virii?
> > 
> > Nay.  Our resident Latinist's services were not called upon, in this
> > case.  My own amazing powers of pedantry sufficed.
> 
> Furthermore, I was not the person illiterate enough to type "virii."
> Excluding the spelling error, I simply found the posting interesting
> enough to forward.

In digital quotation of e-mail, you shouldn't _have to_ type "[sic]".

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