Re:My Colleague Julius
by buggy6257 on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:07PM
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If this is going to enter our lexicon as a short-name for this type of person, I'll point out that since "Julius" is originally latin derived, the pluralization should follow that of most/all latin nouns, and thus be "Julii".
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Re:My Colleague Julius
by whatisyourwork on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:19PM
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Well, yes. But the blog is an English blog and plural is Juliuses. The rules of grammar apply from the language, not from the word. Sometimes the language inherits the rules from the language of the word. But that's an exception.
Re:My Colleague Julius
by adammarples on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:42PM
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Well now we are choosing to inherit a newly contextualised word it's appropriate to discuss what grammar we should take with it
Just ask Julius, then....
Except that the blog is also in French. https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-fr.html
The author is running a poll to establish the plural: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/113704470821790664
But in Latin Julius starts with an I. (with apologies to The Last Crusade)
Re:My Colleague Julius
by spondylosaurus on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:15AM
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That assumes Julius is a second declension noun. If it were a third declension noun it would indeed be Juliuses.
In the subject, but e.g. 'Surely you're joking, Juli?' or 'I feel surrounded by Julios.' My Latin is pretty rusty, though.
Re:My Colleague Julius
by dredmorbius on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:45PM
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As we're a tech site, the plural is clearly Juliuxen.