since I first tested Songbird, I never felt that this would be able to become a success. It may have incorporated some interesting idea, but basing a media player on a heavyweight application such as Mozilla was a weird decision to start with. A media player should be fast, snappy and responsive, not take a minute to start.
You couldn't be more wrong. "-ii" only occurs if the stem of the respective noun already contains an "i", e.g. sagitari-us -> sagitari-i.
If it ends in "x" it anyway belongs to a different class which usually has its nominative plural ending in "es", whereby the "x", which is just a concatenation of the stem's last consonant and the case ending "s" is replaced by "c". I.e. "boces" would be correct, (the "c" is historically pronounced as "k".) Like "pater -> patres" or "dux" -> "duces"
It's a perfectly good middle-english plural. ... as well as present-day standard German. (probably Dutch, too. And possibly even Scandinavian Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish.)
there some requirement that states that media reviewers of an operating system must modify its default color scheme and appearance in such a way as to make the user interface appear as undesireable as possible?
That is not Eugenia's fault as she didn't take them.
What she is guilty of is reviewing a program without _ever_ having used id, solely based on these admittedly ugly screens.
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since I first tested Songbird, I never felt that this would be able to become a success. It may have incorporated some interesting idea, but basing a media player on a heavyweight application such as Mozilla was a weird decision to start with. A media player should be fast, snappy and responsive, not take a minute to start.
... as soon as it is, SCO will sue them.
You couldn't be more wrong. "-ii" only occurs if the stem of the respective noun already contains an "i", e.g. sagitari-us -> sagitari-i. If it ends in "x" it anyway belongs to a different class which usually has its nominative plural ending in "es", whereby the "x", which is just a concatenation of the stem's last consonant and the case ending "s" is replaced by "c". I.e. "boces" would be correct, (the "c" is historically pronounced as "k".) Like "pater -> patres" or "dux" -> "duces"
It's a perfectly good middle-english plural. ... as well as present-day standard German. (probably Dutch, too. And possibly even Scandinavian Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish.)
That is not Eugenia's fault as she didn't take them.
What she is guilty of is reviewing a program without _ever_ having used id, solely based on these admittedly ugly screens.