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  1. I wonder what obscure.org thinks? by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 2 · on MySQL & Nusphere

    The original press release from MySQL AB mentions the thread from an "obscure .ORG" site. I don't see how obscure.org is a threat to them. I'm puzzled.

  2. Re:Bugger == Pedicator by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 2 · on Part of Ender's Game Script Posted
    My Webster doesn't have "pedicator" in it. What does it mean?
    I was trying to be slightly circumspect, lest anyone be needlessly offended. You can look it up in these verba cloacae. More naughty bits are available on the obscene Latin page.
  3. Re:Bugger == Pedicator by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 2 · on Part of Ender's Game Script Posted
    My Webster doesn't have "pedicator" in it. What does it mean?
    I was trying to be slightly circumspect, lest anyone be needlessly offended. You can look it up in these verba cloacae. More naughty bits are available on the obscene Latin page.
  4. Re:naughty bits by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 1 · on Security Hole in SSH1 with RSAREF
    The classical rules would say to use the following for "singular, plural":
    • clitoris, clitorides (Greek)
    • penis, penes (Latin)
    • vagina, vaginae (Latin)
    • testis, testes (Latin)
    • scrotum, scrota (Latin)
    • larynx, larynges (Greek)
    • pharyx, pharynges (Greek)
    (Yes, the last two could theoretically occur in sexual contexts. But Sphinx/Sphinges probably wouldn't. :-)

    In practice, only medical texts tend to do so. (Now you know why physicians take Greek and Latin.) The rest of us just add the normal English endings. It's not like these comes up very often in pillow talk.

    You can see the -ides inflection in compounds:

    % look clitori
    Clitoria
    clitoridauxe
    clitoridean
    clitoridectomy
    clitoriditis
    clitoridotomy
    clitoris
    clitorism
    clitoritis
    As for irides (literally, rainbows), hm... I suppose some of these naughty bits might on occasion be iridescent.

    I'm glad slashdot has never done a feature article on how to talk dirty in Latin. Otherwise we'd doubtless be innundated with requests for Natalia the Irrumatrix. :-)

    And no, "Irrumatrix" isn't the bootleg, uncut, XXX-rated version of that silly Matrix movie with Keanu caught doing the naughty. Then again, with recent advances in digital technology, one never knows what they might come up with. :-)**2