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Ah don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
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Forogar wrote: I am fed up of illogical singular and plural sets such as
Go enjoy Esperanto and let English be; there's already enough managers, marketing-idiots and Americans making up nonsense-words.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Agreed. I really hate it when people enverb nouns.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Whiner
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If the English language were developed in one sitting you'd see stuff like that. It however evolved over time in tidbits.
Jeremy Falcon
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So virus... would it be viruses or virii 
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Sadly English plurals are actually logical. All you need to know is the etymology of the word and that will lead to the correct plural.
Simples.
veni bibi saltavi
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Yup, and there are only 750,000 or so root words, so there's no good reason why he shouldn't have memorised the etymology of hem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"House/Hice"
So the origin of the word is germanic and for the plural the 's' becomes a 'z', so in Dutch, a close relative of english, huis becomes huizen, as in english, house becomes, phonetically, houzes.
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I don't want any of this real logic! I want silly plural logic! Stop being so accurate!
I am an English language scholar so have a lot of this etymological history available to me. What you tell me is actually very interesting!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I've got a simpler rule:
Just put "Mo" in front of any singular noun to make it plural.
House/Mo House
Moose/Mo Moose
Octopus/Mo Octopus
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Old Tool OTD:
Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using.
QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.
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I still use that one.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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ACDSee. It became bloated and useless.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I used ACDSee95 because Win95 had no built-in image viewer 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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For viewing only, I used VuePrint. It's now available for free and it's still very good.
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It did; it came with ms-paint.
The reason those picture-viewers became so popular was "hands free slide shows".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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As far as I can recall it didn't read many format, including JPEG. I was fairly young and inexperienced at that time so I listened a lot to what others said - and they weren't experts, just tinkers.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It was updated (before Win98 came about) to include extra file-formats, yes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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At that time I had the 27 floppies version  I couldn't install nor Plus! nor OSR/2 due to lack of CD reader. Came the CD came Win98 came the crashes with the screensaver; reverted but to NT4. Lasted until Win98 SE, then skipped everything until XP. On the oldest PC I installed Win Me and I'm one of the only three people satisfied with it.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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(A license for) Win ME was the only version of Windows that I actually paid for.
I still regret that choice 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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