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  • From: <kennytaylor AT runbox.com>
  • To: "discuss" <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Ferorum FTTH/FTTP Broadband
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:38:31 -0700 (PDT)

Grammatical pluarlty aside, sign me up for a modest 200 gbps plan :)


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Sent: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:35:57 -0500
From: "Alex M (Coyo)" <coyo AT darkdna.net>
To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Ferorum FTTH/FTTP Broadband

> On 04/12/2013 09:29 AM, subhuman wrote:
> > isn't "ferorum" a genitive plural? correct me. but i guess i needn't read
> > further if the main idea is faulty.
>
> Pretty sure you are incorrect.
>
> " Ingrammar
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar>,*genitive*(abbreviated
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glossing_abbreviations>*gen*;
> also called the*possessive case
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessive_case>*or*second case*) is
> thegrammatical case <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case>that
> marks anoun <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun>as modifying another
> noun. It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun;
> however, it can also indicate various other relationships than
> possession: certainverbs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb>may
> takearguments
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_%28linguistics%29>in the
> genitive case, and it may haveadverbial
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverb>uses (/see/Adverbial genitive
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverbial_genitive>)."
>
> I know enough Latin to know this is not the possessive form.
>
> Assuming you are a professor of Latin with a doctorate in language
> studies, I fail to see how the name being grammatically invalid
> automatically invalidates the concept for the venture as a whole.
>
> Care to explain?
>
>
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