Re: Multiple Message Bodies

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh please don't sound so cheery!  I hate being Mr Pedant, and all my
"knowledge" comes via Google and Wikipedia ;-)
My latin stops at "Cacilius est Romanus", which comes from the
first
page of my first Latin textbook.

I'd heard that English is a tough langauge to learn, and I know the
reasons put forward to support that (all those irregular verbs and
spellings), but I don't see how it's harder than say, French, where they
only pronounce the first half of each word, or other languages where you
have to worry about gender and various endings for nouns!  Besides, all
those non-English speakers have the distinct advantage of constant
exposure from radio and TV.

Mal


Ian Lowe wrote:

> Cheers!
>
> To be honest, I had a vague notion that schemae wasn't right, but
schemas
> sounded wrong too.
>
> Oh the joys of English - it's hard enough for native speakers, I'd
hate to
> be learning it as a second language.
>
> I.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 11 December 2005 20:15
> To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] Multiple Message Bodies
>
> Sorry for this Ian, but I've already edited it out of the existing
> wiki, so
> here goes...
>
> <pedant>
>
> The accepted plurals of schema in English are schemas and schemata -
not
> schemae.  This is because schema is derived from Greek, not Latin.  I
> changed all the "schemae" in the wiki to "schemas"
- the alternative of
> "schemata" would normally only be used in academic
documents, and comes
> across as pretentious in a user-support context such as our wiki.
>
> BTW, the same applies to the other favourite of programmers - virus.
> The English plural is viruses, not virii, and for much the same
reason.
>
> </pedant>
>
> Thankyou for your patience ;-)
>
> Mal
>
>
>
> Ian Lowe wrote:
>
> >
> > We'll also need some of the schemae docs updated to reflect that
they
> > use multiple fields (and which ones), however, that can be done
over
> time.
> >
>
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