User talk:DogWithHerpes

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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 22:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Reversion of your edit

Lest it is not clear, I reverted your "correction" because the sentence is explaining what not to, making a deliberate error to illustrate. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:15, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification (and for reverting the misguided edit.) As an experienced editor, do you think that the deliberacy of the mistake is clear enough? When I read the section, I interpreted it as examples of linguistically correct plurals that should be avoided in Wikipedic use. DogWithHerpes (talk) 22:20, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Actually in Latin the plural of excursus is excursus. You were apparently thinking of the nominative plural for Latin first-declension nouns, but excursus, like cursus, is fourth declension. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 22:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah, ok, did not realise that. Thank you. DogWithHerpes (talk) 22:36, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah, neither did I. So I was right to revert, but for the wrong reason . 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:06, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I just love it when several people peacefully agree on the Internet. Shame it doesn't always happen! DogWithHerpes (talk) 23:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

I erred too, though it doesn't affect anything. The "-i" ending would be typical for Latin second-declension nouns. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 15:07, 16 June 2024 (UTC)