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From: glenn@c3pe.UUCP (D. Glenn Arthur Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Language :-)
Message-ID: <119@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 15:03:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: c3pe.119
Posted: Mon Jun  2 15:03:17 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jun-86 07:07:11 EDT
References: <94@obelix.UUCP> <2533@pogo.UUCP>
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Summary: Plurals

This isn't terribly relevant, so I'll keep it short:

In article <2533@pogo.UUCP>, richr@pogo.UUCP (Rich Rodgers) writes:
> Many people are currently running their Amiga's (Amigi ??) with a 68010.

If we want to but cute and classical, imitating Greek or Latin, I think
the plural of "Amiga" should be "Amigai" (Greek, first declension, feminine).
An alternative is to be even more pretensious and consider that because 
each Amiga is a collection of processors (CPU, Blitter, etc.) "Amiga" is
already plural, in which case the singular wouldbe "Amigon" (Greek again,
second declension, neuter).  Do you think of your computer as "she" or "it"
(or "them")?  :-)

I also refer to different versions of Unix as "Unices", by the way, in which
it seems I'm not alone.  Stand up for classy plurals!

					D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
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