[trevi]

By the way who really uses fora as the plural of forum? To me it seems at best arbitrary, at worst pretentious.

[mahmud]

Pretension and grammar-Nazism are the virii of online communication.

[iwr]

You must mean pretentiousness, surely.

[mahmud]

"Pretension and grammar-Nazism": in this phrase, the first part is honeycomb, and the second is a bear-trap.

Have a nice day.

[Waywocket]

I see what you did there.

[moeffju]

Wait, you mean viruses? :)

[forgotusername]

I'm sorry, next time I'll uses "forumses". Damn ecomony got all these morans backs up!

[trevi]

You're implying that fora is the only acceptable way of writing the plural of "forum". That's nonsense, forums is perfectly valid English. My point was: why forum/fora? Why not creditor/creditores, or abdomen/abdomina?

[forgotusername]

I'm honestly not sure. Perhaps this topic would be more appropriate for a linguistics forum?

[petercooper]

The same people who say "mouses" instead of "mice."