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From: | Jean Abou Samra |
Subject: | Re: GSoC 2020: Shape-note notehead encoding |
Date: | Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:28:02 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
Le 22/07/2020 à 03:32, Aaron Hill a écrit :
On 2020-07-21 5:39 pm, Owen Lamb wrote:corpuses (corpori?)Off-topic: "corpora" is the plural in English. Though while "corpuses" is not technically correct, I would have no problem understanding it.
Yes, Latin would prescribe corpora as the plural of corpus, oris due to it being a neutral noun − although the relevance of this rule is questionable since in a Latin sentence, it would also depend on how this word is used.
Funny story about a sort-of congressman opposing a draft bill: “Non possumus! he emphatically claimed, And I'll add, Non possumi! because I'm not the only one thinking so.”
Tentative translation: “We cannot! And I'll add, we cannots, because I'm not…”.
Hope humor helps things progress, Jean
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