Tuesday 8 July 2008

000001 Binary Solo

Q: Where on the world wide web do people go to discuss their limbs?

A: Internet Forearms.

5 comments:

Cosmic Horse said...

Yeah, but the plural of forum is fora. Remember, pedantry is much funnier than comedy.

hirekatsu said...

Actually Mr Horse, it could be argued that "internet forum" as a compound noun is a neologism that just happens to use the original form of "forum" singular, in which case the common plural form of "forums" would be correct as it needn't depend on the original plural form of "fora" for its own pluralisation. See also "Computer viruses" as opposed to the incorrect "Computer virii". Yes, pedantry is much funnier than comedy.

Cosmic Horse said...

One could indeed argue that, yes. Good point. And of course the purpose of language is to facilitate communication, and this end is not served by people like me dogmatically insisting that people comply with outdated rules from a dead language. Anyway,this thread is fantastic. Watch and learn, Pierre: THIS is comedy.

Geenious said...

I think its funnier if you could chuck words like discombobulator,flabber wanger, ambient resister and digital interface into this wordy arguement.

Cosmic Horse said...

Shut it, flabber wanger.