Re: Klez.H worm preserved in Debian BTS
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:20:54PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > "Viruses"? Oddly, it's the computing community that has the most trouble
> > with this. http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html has more on this.
>
> Why "oddly"? I wouldn't expect computer people to be as familiar with
> Latin as biologists, in general.
People who aren't familiar with Latin would say "viruses" :) It's the
people who have heard of Latin but haven't studied it who try to
Latinize the plural. On the other hand, "virii" could be considered
hackish slang, like "emacsen". Except that "virii" isn't funny.
Richard Braakman
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