Nexii and power

by Chiya

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Erion2004-12-12 19:49:14
Cry. Crazy brits. It's Nexii. Focus, Foci. Nexus, Nexi. And Nexii because I'm allowed to be an egotistical prick and let it all be about the 'I'. Mwahaha.
Unknown2004-12-12 20:10:31
The God of Valour on Aetolia kept making jokes about "Veleur" when I said Valour instead of Valor.

Hehe.
Rhysus2004-12-13 00:24:16
QUOTE(Erion @ Dec 12 2004, 02:49 PM)
Cry.  Crazy brits.  It's Nexii.  Focus, Foci.  Nexus, Nexi.  And Nexii because I'm allowed to be an egotistical prick and let it all be about the 'I'.  Mwahaha.
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You can be an egotistical prick to your heart's content. You're still wrong. Nexii isn't correct in American English or British English. Nexus, like the words status, apparatus, hiatus, plexus, sinus, and others, is a 4th declension in Latin, and so pluralizes as "-us", though by convention "-uses" has become acceptable in some of these words, nexuses included. Nexus and nexuses are both acceptable pluralizations of the singular nexus. Nexii is not.
Unknown2004-12-13 00:39:37
go Rhysus
Nementh2004-12-13 00:46:19
Now to be the true know it all Prick, I have looked it up in the Oxford American Dictionary, and the Oxford English Dictionary:

Plural is, for both, NEXUS! You all are wrong

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And for the latin discription, plural in latin is normally 'ii' with few exceptions.
Unknown2004-12-13 00:46:19
How did this go from a question about getting power to proper usage of the word "nexus"?
Unknown2004-12-13 05:30:06
The only time -us becomes -i is when the word is strictly latin-derived. So nexus (and the always confused virus) become nexuses (and viruses), not nexii (virii).
Unknown2004-12-13 05:43:58
7 entries found for nexus.
nex·us ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nkss)
n. pl. nexus or nex·us·es
A means of connection; a link or tie: “this nexus between New York's... real-estate investors and its... politicians” (Wall Street Journal).
A connected series or group.
The core or center: “The real nexus of the money culture Wall Street” (Bill Barol).


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But I still think 'nexuses' sounds awful.
Unknown2004-12-13 16:52:08
Nexuses and Nexus are both right. Nexii is not.

Papyrus is a Papyri, not Papyrii.

And NEXUSES is used in the help scrolls. If 'twere wrong, I think Roark and his big brain would have fixed it.
Xavius2004-12-13 16:58:31
QUOTE(Nementh @ Dec 12 2004, 07:46 PM)
And for the latin discription, plural in latin is normally 'ii' with few exceptions.
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If by "few exceptions," you mean about 75% of the language, then sure!
Erion2004-12-13 17:34:30
QUOTE(Rhysus @ Dec 12 2004, 08:24 PM)
You can be an egotistical prick to your heart's content. You're still wrong. Nexii isn't correct in American English or British English. Nexus, like the words status, apparatus, hiatus, plexus, sinus, and others, is a 4th declension in Latin, and so pluralizes as "-us", though by convention "-uses" has become acceptable in some of these words, nexuses included. Nexus and nexuses are both acceptable pluralizations of the singular nexus. Nexii is not.
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I was being sarcastic. doh.gif

And, Shiro, go smoke a brick.
oraya2004-12-13 17:43:51
I can't spell anyways....and throwing in other ways of spelling things just makes it that much worse! >.< *sniffle* be nice, adopt one way of putting things! octopi sounds neater than... uh...octo..er, octupuses?
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