It’s “Fora”, for ****’s sake. Am I the only one who finds this annoying every time I read it?

WGAF.

Yes. Get a massage.

Non nobis deliberandum.

Do you rigidly extend native pluralisation rules to words the english language has loaned from spanish, or japanese, or hebrew, or inuit?

In the grand scheme of things, it really isn’t important.

not necessarily. but most of them don’t sound so completely wrong.

single-celled organisms which typically live in the ocean?

It’s not fora – nobody says ‘fora’ in real life. We all say ‘forums’.

I bet you do too, so stop trying to start an argument (or try a bit harder). 🙂

i do say fora 🙁

it’s a mistake perpetuated throughout the mediums 😆

And I think you’ll find that “The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.” Smart arse.

Oh ffs you don’t even know how to construct a sentence.

while i can ignore it in individual posts, its irritating in thread titles.

@Gary – i’m not so sure. and just cause people are stupid doesn’t mean they should be allowed to be.

Why does it make someone sound stupid? You honestly get annoyed at people saying ‘forums’ instead of ‘fora’, honestly?

Yes – English style plurals for latin derived words are widely accepted now. Forum is a latin word but it’s been adopted in English and is now an English word. So its English plural is fine. Plus you sound a right pompous knobjockey saying ‘fora’ or ‘virii’ and the rest.

Do you say ‘a piece of data’ or ‘a datum’ when talking computery things? I’ve never heard anyone say ‘datum’ unless they were talking about graphs. Why? Cos you’d sound a dick.

I suppose it’s the kind of archaic, self-consciously pedantic usage you’d expect from a beardy Marin-riding singletrackworld-dwelling middle class conservative Skoda-driving wannabe internet wit.

But that doesn’t stop it sounding daft, which is why no-one says it. 🙂

no, i suppose it doesn’t make them stupid. i don’t really think of it on a personal level every time i come on here and read it.

and just cause people are stupid doesn’t mean they should be allowed to be.

is this an eugenic cleansing thing ?

I suppose it’s the kind of archaic, self-consciously pedantic usage you’d expect from a beardy Marin-riding singletrackworld-dwelling middle class conservative Skoda-driving wannabe internet wit.

😆 if i was able to grow a beard i might consider it, but i would never own a marin 😡 😆

Electronics engineers shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the English language.

Mind you, neither should I 🙁

It’s “Fora”, for ****’s sake.

It’s ‘Forae’, I think you’ll find.

Sorry I am lost, what is a Fora?

😉

It’s “Fora”, for ****’s sake.

It’s ‘Forae’, I think you’ll find.

I think you’ll find it isn’t.

I am sometimes unsure whether it is appropriate to state “I could not care less”, or to use the slightly peculiar americanism “I could care less” with the implication either that I do not or that it is unlikely that I actually would.

On this occasion, I am happy to plump for “I could not care less”.
But thanks for raising your concerns. 😉

I prefer butter.

well played, BD, well played. 😆

He’s right, it is fora. We are all wrong. I’m changing my ways!

I loved this online discussion for the height of self-importance, in the context of the poster using “forums”;

I want to argue for this at my work because the term fora is being used and I want to know if there’s more evidence that I’m actually correct, besides what the Oxford English Dictionary tells me.

welcome aboard, CK. If just one more person gets a bit pissed off when they next click on the offending button at the top of the page then that’s good enough for me. 🙂

To calm everyone down, here’s a picture of some Octopi/Octopusses/Octopodes

Gary_M is right. Latin is dead, speak in English man!

Data occur so rarely in singular form that the word “Datum” has largely fallen out of use. When unsure, I just roll a die 😆

Apparently, the plural of forum, when related to t’interweb is ‘forums’ not ‘fora’

There is an excellent reason for this, what I saw on the tele, but I’m buggered if I can remember what it is. Something to do with ‘forum’ having two, distict meanings in latin, one of which was pluralised to fora and one of which wasn’t. Or something. Anyway, I have written it on the internet now so it has become true.

Ahem – this is what the OED says

Could the pedants please get there coat’s? (sic)

Yup, that’s the reason I heard. Close enough

No need to get yer knickers in a twist next time you click ‘forums’ then theflatboy.

i still will, i don’t buy into the lies propagated by these new-fangled dictionaries

jeez, just imagine you had something important to worry about – where would you find the time?

You need to find one of those Nutters who thinks he’s the re-incarnation of Caesar, and ask him, he’ll know.

good idea, nick. i’ll start by looking at all the popular local fora. 🙂

As the on-line OED lists two plural versions of Stadium it probably can not be relied on to be the final arbiter where adopted Latin words are concerned. (My theory, the first….) 8)

wally