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[camwyn]

Dear Throat:


I hate you.

I hate your coughing reflex.

I hate the way the nose drains down the back of you.

I especially hate the way you and the nose together made it impossible last night for me to get more than five hours' sleep- if that. I may have been conscious from about 3:30 onwards to 7 or so this morning in one way or another. I don't know. I wasn't checking the clock.

At least you are starting to give me back the ability to talk, but that doesn't make me hate you any less.

When the order arrives from FreshDirect, I'm putting everything away, then going back up to my sleeping area and taking some NyQuil, and then you will not be able to cough me miserably awake any more. How d'you like THEM apples?

*mutter*

-Camwyn

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

*healing vibes from Michigan*

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, you've got the dreaded lurgi too? *health mojo*

[deep-shadow.livejournal.com]

You show those organs whose boss! If you don't lay down the law now, soon they'll be asking you to pick up their dry cleaning or water their plants. When will it end?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[drags self onto deck from the same boat]

Death to sinii.

[falls over]

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now you've got me curious as to what the actual Latin plural of "sinus" would be. *looks it up* ...I thought so. Sinūs.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

*HONNNNK*

Not sinii? Drat. *sniffle* Where did I pick that up, too?

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Second-declension Latin nouns take -i as their plural ending (not -ii, which is a very common misspelling stemming from the fact that some nouns end in -ius, yielding -ii in the plural). However, they look a lot like fourth-declension nouns, which take -ūs instead, and only a Latin dictionary can tell you which is which. "Sinus" is fourth-declension, along with "Jesus" and, as far as anyone can tell, "virus" (plurals "Jesūs" and "virūs", respectively). "Nucleus" and "radius", on the other hand, are second-declension and pluralize as "nuclei" and "radii". "Octopus" isn't actually Latin at all, but belongs to a Greek declension similar to Latin's third, and so becomes "octopodes" in the plural (though "octopuses" will do just fine).

And there we have it. More than anyone but the geekiest of Latin students would ever want to know about the plural forms of words ending in -us.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[admiring look] Wow, you're thorough. :D

I don't remember a thing about declensions. *sigh*

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

That'd be because I'm a great big dork with a thing for languages. And it's not like most people end up needing to know much about Latin declensions anyway.

Ug

[argonautilus.livejournal.com]

Feel better, I know how miserable that is. Make sure to get some food in you too before you let Nyquill take you

Re: Ug

[camwyn]

Oooh, good point. Hadn't thought of that. Fortunately, FreshDirect just arrived, and they delivered about $80 worth of groceries that I bought online yesterday, so food will not be a problem.

'course I got in four extra hours of just-about-sleep between that post and now, so I'm not feeling so insistent upon NyQuil. Still.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Damn pathogens. Hope your immune system gets its act together soon, Cam. That sort of reminded me of my one-act play about my bout with mono. :)