I miss Aspiring Writers...

[Rosemary]

Well I don't understand it at all! I know I need new glasses but it seems to me that Aspiring writers is still in the same place

Obviously I must be wrong because our Super Moderators and Moderators say it isn't, and who I am to disagree with them?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Rosemary

Well I don't understand it at all! I know I need new glasses but it seems to me that Aspiring writers is still in the same place.

It is simply a product of the way the software works. The main 'forums' are known as categories and they then have sub-forums inside them. Usually the category itself does not act as a forum (you cannot make threads there) but for some reason AW was set up differently to every other category here and you could actually post in it. Moderators were complaining that people kept posting in the wrong place (workshop) because they couldn't see the more general AW threads. There were actually several threads every week needing to be moved, and as we don't like extra work, I (yes, it was my fault if you need a fall guy) just brought it in line with all the other forums. Sorry, about not announcing the change, but everything is still there exactly as it was, and I really didn't think on an extra click being a problem to any one.

[Boneman]

I guess I'm just a fuddy-duddy traditionalist, who hates change...

And I'm sorry... but the plural of the 'male' word forum has to be fori, not fora! Did I mention I was a pedantic git at times, as well?
(I figure as I started the thread, I should be allowed to hijack it...)

[HareBrain]

Originally Posted by Boneman

And I'm sorry... but the plural of the 'male' word forum has to be fori, not fora! Did I mention I was a pedantic git at times, as well?

The only Latin I know comes from Monty Python's Life of Brian, but isn't the male ending "us"? (As confusion over the gender of a certain bear has shown.) So focus/foci, locus/loci, pokeintheus/pokeinthei.

If stadium/stadia, why not forum/fora?

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Boneman

And I'm sorry... but the plural of the 'male' word forum has to be fori, not fora! Did I mention I was a pedantic git at times, as well?

Ah - forum is 'neuter', not 'male', according to my venerable Collins Latin Dictionary...

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by HareBrain

The only Latin I know comes from Monty Python's Life of Brian, but isn't the male ending "us"? (As confusion over the gender of a certain bear has shown.) So focus/foci, locus/loci, pokeintheus/pokeinthei.

If stadium/stadia, why not forum/fora?

I ought to decline to comment, but as with English (and other languages') verbs, endings are often reused. This is easiest to see with adjectives, which have to have versions for all three genders as well as the six cases**:

.......M.......F.......N
Singular
Nom. bonus ..bona ...bonum

Acc. bonum ..bonam ..bonum

Gen. boni ...bonae ..boni
Dat. bono ...bonae ..bono

Abl. bono ...bona ...bono
Voc. bone ...bona ...bonum

Plural

Nom. boni ...bonae ..bona

Acc. bonos ..bonas ..bona
Gen. bonorum bonarum bonorum
Dat. bonis ..bonis ..bonis
Abl. bonis ..bonis ..bonis

Voc. boni ...bonae ..bona

(I hope no-one will suggest that Boneman has a feminine plural accusative. )

** - Nominative (subject), Accusative (direct object), Genitive (possessive), Dative (indirect object), Ablative (used with objects that in English are preceded by: with, to, for, in, on...), Vocative (used to address someone - or something - in speech). Someone else can deal with the Locative.

[Ursa major]

As this is a feedback thread, may I ask why the software keeps adding erroneous line breaks? (After many goes at remedying the situation, I've finally got rid if them. )

[Boneman]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

As this is a feedback thread, may I ask why the software keeps adding erroneous line breaks? )

It doesn't understand Latin?

[Ursa major]

I thought that might be the case....

[Boneman]

Just thought I'd bump this thread to say that I no long miss aspiring writers in the new format...

When I was 8 months old, my father, who was into those sort of things, had a horoscope made for me. The one thing that I sort-of agree with, is this: "Fond of those things that become routine to him, but resists change..."

Definite luddite, me..

[HareBrain]

What I like about the new format is that you can now tell exactly where the new posts are. In the old days, you would have to check the main AW forum as well when it showed new posts -- and there might be some there, or might not (if they were in the sub-forums).

It gives me an extra twenty seconds a day to spend wondering why I don't tidy my desk.