[pianotech] Gettin' olde?...was Field hammer shank repair or???

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sun Sep 12 20:14:11 MDT 2010


On 9/12/2010 8:47 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote:
> "Status" is originally a Latin noun and in Latin it declines as a u-stem
> noun. So in Latin, the plural form of "status" is also "status".
> Paul
> In a message dated 9/12/2010 3:30:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> JD at Pianomaker.co.uk writes:
>
>     At 14:42 -0500 12/9/10, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>      >>Who?! Is that Quechua or Inuit? How do you pronounce it?
>      >
>      >Neither. It's the plural of status (invented just for Joe). Radius <
>      >radii, status < statii. <G>
>
>     Ah well, for a serial offender like Joe it will do fine, but the
>     murder of a language is a crime even if it is already dead, and let
>     it be known the plural of status would be status if it were ever used.
>
>     JD

Yea, yea, I know. It's a JOKE, as described, intended to abuse Joe, who 
gets it.

If it would behoove someone to have done something, would they no have 
been behiven by having complied?

No, no, don't answer that.
Ron N



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