News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:My Colleague Julius by buggy6257 on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:07PM (#42497608)
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".
Re:My Colleague Julius by whatisyourwork on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:19PM (#42497700)
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 (#42497839)
Well now we are choosing to inherit a newly contextualised word it's appropriate to discuss what grammar we should take with it
Re:My Colleague Julius by m2f2 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:54AM (#42502692)
Just ask Julius, then....
Re:My Colleague Julius by claudinec on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:28PM (#42499227)
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

Re:My Colleague Julius by tmtvl on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:02PM (#42498568)
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 (#42499865)
That assumes Julius is a second declension noun. If it were a third declension noun it would indeed be Juliuses.
Re:My Colleague Julius by tgv on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @09:08AM (#42501978)
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 (#42505488)
As we're a tech site, the plural is clearly Juliuxen.