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One day after botched call, Motor City takes higher road -- Tom Boswell's follow-up story on Armando Galarraga's perfect imperfect game.
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery" -- the other James Joyce.
Indeed.
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Posted 2010-June-04, 07:47
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Posted 2010-June-04, 08:23
y66, on Jun 4 2010, 08:47 AM, said:
One day after botched call, Motor City takes higher road -- Tom Boswell's follow-up story on Armando Galarraga's perfect imperfect game.
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery" -- the other James Joyce.
Indeed.
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery" -- the other James Joyce.
Indeed.
Class all around. We could use a lot more of it.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
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Posted 2010-June-04, 08:29
Calling all Michiganers ...
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Posted 2010-June-04, 10:07
y66, on Jun 4 2010, 09:29 AM, said:
Calling all Michiganers ...
clean-up on aisle eight!
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Posted 2010-June-04, 10:10
Jlall, on Jun 2 2010, 07:17 PM, said:
jdonn, on Jun 2 2010, 07:15 PM, said:
My second cousin was a vampire in several episodes of Angel. Coincidence?
what? thats so random lol
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Posted 2010-June-04, 10:25
I deplore the completely lack of conversation in Icelandic in this thread.
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Posted 2010-June-04, 10:45
Español. El segundo idioma con mas hablantes nativos.
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I have nothing to say. Like everyone else.
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mér finnst rosalega gaman að tala íslensku, því miður ég bara get ekki!
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Posted 2010-June-04, 13:01
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The OED (second edition) does not give "fora" as the plural of "forum", whereas it does give (for example) "curricula" as the plural of "curriculum".
In Roman towns and cities there was generally only one forum - the central meeting place or market place. The exception, of course, was Rome itself - but even there, the area between the Palatine and Capitoline hills was referred to as "Forum Magnum" or simply "Forum", while other locations designated as "forum" were known by a description of the business conducted there ("forum piscarium" was the fish market) or the Emperor in whose honour they were built ("forum Augustum").
This meant that although the plural "fora" existed as a grammatical construct, almost no one ever used it. Whereas there are reasons why certain Latin plurals continue to be used as the Romans used them, there seems to me (and perhaps to the clever men at Oxford) to be no reason why English speakers should use a Latin plural that the Romans did not use themselves.
In Roman towns and cities there was generally only one forum - the central meeting place or market place. The exception, of course, was Rome itself - but even there, the area between the Palatine and Capitoline hills was referred to as "Forum Magnum" or simply "Forum", while other locations designated as "forum" were known by a description of the business conducted there ("forum piscarium" was the fish market) or the Emperor in whose honour they were built ("forum Augustum").
This meant that although the plural "fora" existed as a grammatical construct, almost no one ever used it. Whereas there are reasons why certain Latin plurals continue to be used as the Romans used them, there seems to me (and perhaps to the clever men at Oxford) to be no reason why English speakers should use a Latin plural that the Romans did not use themselves.
This forum (fora?) MUST be hi-jacked and the posters saved from ?????. Forget Icelandic, I'm goin Latin.
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Posted 2010-June-04, 13:02
Don't forget opera as the plural of opus.
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Posted 2010-June-04, 13:18
ggwhiz, on Jun 4 2010, 02:01 PM, said:
Forget Icelandic, I'm goin Latin.
Latin is dead and Icelandic is a beautiful living language, það er að segja
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gwnn, on Jun 4 2010, 12:15 PM, said:
mér finnst rosalega gaman að tala íslensku, því miður ég bara get ekki!
Gætir þú talað svolítið hægar?
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Posted 2010-June-04, 13:38
Yes that's one of the phrases I need very often 
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
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Posted 2010-June-04, 14:03
I gotta admit it tilts me when people say "fora" it's like they're trying to sound smart when really they sound pretty dumb.
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BTW what's wrong with saying just "Forum"? It's not like we have 8 different cardgames here. I never understood the point of the plural here (even though I probably always use it myself).
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Posted 2010-June-04, 14:10
gwnn, on Jun 4 2010, 03:05 PM, said:
BTW what's wrong with saying just "Forum"? It's not like we have 8 different cardgames here. I never understood the point of the plural here (even though I probably always use it myself).
There are many sub-forums that can be viewed as their own forum. I would think "this forum" refers to the sub-forum, and "these forums" refer to BBF. Of course on BBF everyone posts on every forum because everyone is advanced/expert but...
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Jlall, on Jun 4 2010, 03:03 PM, said:
I gotta admit it tilts me when people say "fora" it's like they're trying to sound smart when really they sound pretty dumb.
I flat out didn't know what the plural was but it seemed like a logical extension so I just started using it. I guess I will use forums from now on. I never reflected on whether or not the intent was to "sound intelligent" as successful communication was my sole intent and I assume that intent from other users as well.
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Posted 2010-June-04, 15:34
Jlall, on Jun 4 2010, 03:03 PM, said:
I gotta admit it tilts me when people say "fora" it's like they're trying to sound smart when really they sound pretty dumb.
isn't that what they yell at golf courses?
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Posted 2010-June-04, 16:25
Well. I got a minor in Latin, so I think it's a bit unfair to say people who say Fora are just trying to be smart. Some of us just do it out of habit. I'm guilty of using both forums and fora, and I would never suggest that one is right and the other is wrong.
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