From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87235 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What does "Ma" mean, from "Ma Gnus"? Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:16:39 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wpjnigy0.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <27E73A6C-10C8-4F08-89ED-6F5B51839B1C@yw.doraji.xyz> <8737mf75nv.fsf@alex.chromebook> <8660rbnll3.fsf@student.uu.se> <87eg5z5btt.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <86tweun9ab.fsf@student.uu.se> <87vaz84lrs.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470921499 26865 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2016 13:18:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:18:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35455@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Aug 11 15:18:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXps7-0006Xa-1z for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:18:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXpr4-00071Z-NJ; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXpr0-00070s-D2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXpqx-00009L-V2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bXpqw-0008JH-IE for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXpqs-0004AK-4R for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:16:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Qm0AYN8LEgUNt+3tWvnb6DLhL8= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87235 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:43:51 +0200 asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) wrote: AS> Arkady writes: >> The plural of Gnus should be "Gni", is that right? AS> Gnusae, I think? AS> · https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Slave-Gnusae.html I can't help citing this classic: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2139/what-is-the-plural-of-penis "The plural of genus is genera (not genuses and certainly not geni)." Therefore, clearly the plural of "gnus" is "gnera." HTH Ted