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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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