I know that fora is technically the correct plural form of the word forum, but forums is by far the most used and understood plural form. Not to mention that forums is listed in most dictionaries.
This stub from Media College states the case rather succinctly.
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/forum/forums-vs-fora.html
What say ye?
The correct way to to use forum in the plural sense is fora. However, language is dynamic and over time forums as come to be accepted by those who do not know better.
Proper English is fora
Broken/ghetto English is forums
However, In everyday speech either will work just the same
Also do I need to remind people that trolling new threads isn't allowed??????????
:what:
Fora in dutch but forums in english, do you say musea or museums in english?
Forums, mainly because too many people (read: youths) these days have no idea what the word 'Fora' means.
Or in the worlds of my grandmother: "Those silly places where people write nonsensical rubbish on white boards." :laugh:
I feel like forums sound more sensible. Fora sounds werid!
Its going to be LEGEND--wait for it--DARY!-Barney Stinson(How I Met Your Mother)
Forums is not broken or ghetto English as Mark claims. It is the proper plural noun of forum in English. Fora would be the correct plural noun in Latin. Both are 100% correct and you would be able to use either in a publication and you wouldn't be criticized.
A lot of words in English are borrowed from other languages and its parent language is disregarded. For example the plural of medium is media but the meaning of the word media has evolved.
Sent from my iPad Air using Windows 95
veeman said:
Forums is not broken or ghetto English as Mark claims. It is the proper plural noun of forum in English. Fora would be the correct plural noun in Latin. Both are 100% correct and you would be able to use either in a publication and you wouldn't be criticized.
A lot of words in English are borrowed from other languages and its parent language is disregarded. For example the plural of medium is media but the meaning of the word media has evolved.
Sent from my iPad Air using Windows 95
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Stop posting serious stuff bamboo. :|
roofrider said:
Stop posting serious stuff bamboo. :|
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I get bored of trolling all the time :|
veeman said:
I get bored of trolling all the time :|
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Frodo or Froda?
cascabel said:
Frodo or Froda?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Frodette
Sent from my iPad Air using Windows 95
veeman said:
Frodette
Sent from my iPad Air using Windows 95
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha.
Windows 95 is a while back! I'd love some iPad Air without iOS. Can you give me the instructions to install Windows 95 on an iPad?
Thanks in advance!
Sent from my Xperia E dual using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
MatsPunt said:
Haha.
Windows 95 is a while back! I'd love some iPad Air without iOS. Can you give me the instructions to install Windows 95 on an iPad?
Thanks in advance!
Sent from my Xperia E dual using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Process is the same as here, but follow the instructions upside down and backwards.
& if you like win 95 on an ipad you might want to look up ubuntu for android
GreayStone said:
& if you like win 95 on an ipad you might want to look up ubuntu for android
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And if you're trying to get your 1st ten posts, ot is not the place to get them.
cascabel said:
Frodo or Froda?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
veeman said:
Frodette
Sent from my iPad Air using Windows 95
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I quite like Frodilitta, it has a nice ring to it. Like something you use to clean your bathroom.
I just used my Frodilitta in the bathroom.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
Fora is the correct form but it sounds like a flower.
Related
Ha Ha
scroll down and look under keywords
hahahaha....that's epic!!
HTC seems to have all users around the world hooked on the HD2. Developers, Linguists, Techies... and now: Perverts! Woo!
The only people left to bring into the HTC Revolution are Senior Citizens.
Agent Zach said:
HTC seems to have all users around the world hooked on the HD2. Developers, Linguists, Techies... and now: Perverts! Woo!
The only people left to bring into the HTC Revolution are Senior Citizens.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol..so true..
Lmaoo. It all goes to one website. A HTC HD2 review Website. It's nerd porn not real porn. DAMN!
I'm sorry to inform you that these keywords are, in fact, fake. Everyone knows ANDROID phones are for porn.
JAguirre1231 said:
I'm sorry to inform you that these keywords are, in fact, fake. Everyone knows ANDROID phones are for porn.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
haha! True...WinMO are for "documents" and lameness
JAguirre1231 said:
I'm sorry to inform you that these keywords are, in fact, fake. Everyone knows ANDROID phones are for porn.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hahaha and next, microsoft is going to release their Windows Porn 7 Series to compete it
Hey @JAguirre1231 - Do you use your Android for porn?
G1BRICKED said:
Hey @JAguirre1231 - Do you use your Android for porn?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There are other uses for them?
JAguirre1231 said:
There are other uses for them?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've heard there are. I tried to install a "ROM" on my G1, but it deleted all of my P0rn so I guess not.
ingerasu said:
hahaha and next, microsoft is going to release their Windows Porn 7 Series to compete it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Windows Porn 7 Series
I like it!!!
So I'm planning on building a website for my photography. I either want a flash based or HTML based. I have some basic knowledge of both, but I'm either too lazy or too stupid to make one myself (probably the second one). Does anyone want to practice writing one? Reward possible.
If you need a photography website let me know and I'll cut you a deal It''ll be very affordable.
And by affordable you mean free, right? lol.
I'm an artist. I have no money.
People that are dumb and lazy use weebly. Com
Your welcome.
Sent from my anus using xda crap
I had a client who used Weebly.com and they screwed him then he just ended up paying around $150 for a website design from myself and ended up using it for quite a few years.. but then he stopped paying for the hosting and maintenance... sad story lol
itsbeertimenow said:
People that are dumb and lazy use weebly. Com
Your welcome.
Sent from my anus using xda crap
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So I guess since I'm neither dumb nor lazy, I wont use weebly.com
jaszek said:
So I guess since I'm neither dumb nor lazy, I wont use weebly.com
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do I need to quote your op, or shall you read it yourself?
Sent from my anus using xda crap
itsbeertimenow said:
Do I need to quote your op, or shall you read it yourself?
Sent from my anus using xda crap
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And you said "dumb AND lazy". Also now I realized I'm too lazy to write it myself. And does quoting mean I won't have to read it?
jaszek said:
And you said "dumb AND lazy". Also now I realized I'm too lazy to write it myself. And does quoting mean I won't have to read it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All right, people that are dumb OR lazy often use weebly.com
Sent from my anus using xda crap
I would recommend avoiding flash based websites, most all new major sites are trying not to use flash as much and mobile browsing is also an issue. Stick with good ol' html, you can try looking at Wordpress and Drupal.
I was **** hot with geocities back in the day.... (showing my age there)
You just want a giant troll face spewing photos out of it's mouth right?
I'll get right on it.......
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.......
conantroutman said:
I was **** hot with geocities back in the day.... (showing my age there)
You just want a giant troll face spewing photos out of it's mouth right?
I'll get right on it.......
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.......
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ahh, geocities. And then those AOL "websites"...and then came myspace. lol
jaszek said:
Ahh, geocities. And then those AOL "websites"...and then came myspace. lol
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It was never yourspace....
It was Chuck Norris', he just let you use it.
Hello there XDA People
Im Shir, I'm living in Israel.
I've just done with Google Tutorial for Begginers for how to create
a basic android app, and I want to work about something myself.
I was hoping you guys will give me some ideas for a very very
basic apps.
Good night/morning
Somebody?
Something?
Please?
This question should have been posted in the Android General q&a section.
Sent from my Nexus 7
BillGoss said:
This question should have been posted in the Android General q&a section.
Sent from my Nexus 7
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah that make sense.
anyway I posted it here so..
In my experience as a software developer I usually start with what would be useful to me that isn't exactly available yet. This way I would be motivated to do it. More like putting a user's hat, think of what you need and then putting your dev hat to create it. It's difficult for others to decide for you.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
For my first "real" app, beyond book tutorials, I made a database to store my internship hours and activities. At first it was simple and I had to type in all the fields. Then I expanded it to allow for drop down lists, radio and check box selection and date picker type things. After that I learned how to export my database into both a comma delimited CSV and Excel format. After that I went a step further to allow that information to be uploaded to Dropbox as well as backup the database to Dropbox and the SD card. Lastly, I learned how to let me send the spreadsheets to apps like e-mail and Printershare so I could print straight from the device. Its ugly as hell, but I might clean it up, make it look pretty, and sell it on the Play store if I get time. Currently people in my field have two choices...pen and paper, or a reasonably priced but ultimately pain in the arse online website that charges like $60 a year and we need to track this info for 3-4 years.
So, in other words...as someone else noted...figure out something you need or could use and work on it. If you can do like I did and find something useful for your field, all the better because you could make some money off of it.
One app I would like to see is a decent invoice program that would allow me to store my invoices, backup my database, print invoices to wireless or cloud printers (even using 3rd party stuff like my app does) and have it not cost stupid amounts of money like most of the decent invoicing apps on the market now. I could probably figure it out, but the above app took me over a year of casual programming to figure out...but I work in the medical field...not a developer.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Thanks I'll come with something upp
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
Linexus said:
Somebody?
Something?
Please?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try omething easy like using Appcelerator to develop something.
rlreddy said:
Try omething easy like using Appcelerator to develop something.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What is appcelerator?
Linexus said:
What is appcelerator?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Google would be your friend!
You know, that search engine thingy that finds things for you!
Transmitted from either Nexus7 - Tab2 - GT-N7000 - i9100
alferret said:
Google would be your friend!
You know, that search engine thingy that finds things for you!
Transmitted from either Nexus7 - Tab2 - GT-N7000 - i9100
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe Im stupid but not that much :cyclops:
From what Ive got, it's an app that you can create apps with?
Like Java and Eclipse or something like that?
i to have just started playing around I got my first app it has two buttons one says boobies and the other button1, now to make them do something tomm
Linexus said:
Maybe Im stupid but not that much :cyclops:
From what Ive got, it's an app that you can create apps with?
Like Java and Eclipse or something like that?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just ignore things like that. There are a lot of rude people on the internet and they love visiting forums.
Personally I used Eclipse. Most development books focus their tutorials on this and its free!
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
BrianDigital said:
i to have just started playing around I got my first app it has two buttons one says boobies and the other button1, now to make them do something tomm
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'd buy that for a dollar.
*Sent from Nexus S*
ExploreMN said:
Just ignore things like that. There are a lot of rude people on the internet and they love visiting forums.
Personally I used Eclipse. Most development books focus their tutorials on this and its free!
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
He wasn't rude, sarcastic maybe.
He is just pointing the lack of initiative to find answers that already exist, cause its more easy make the question? ( im not a saint, did it already after a lazy search)
Sent from my LG-P500 using xda premium
maztahbr said:
He wasn't rude, sarcastic maybe.
He is just pointing the lack of initiative to find answers that already exist, cause its more easy make the question? ( im not a saint, did it already after a lazy search)
Sent from my LG-P500 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So if I say "Wow, you must really be dumb, huh?" Which is also sarcastic, that's OK? It's not rude? I'm just checking because you are, obviously, saying that all things sarcastic are not rude...making you some kind of expert, right? Wait, that's not rude either because its sarcastic! I'm going to love this, because now I can put down or talk down to anyone, as long as I do it sarcastically, and not be considered rude, condescending, or an ass! Awesome!
Listen, rude by any other name is still rude and by the OP's response it is easy to see he was offended. I would be as well. Perhaps you are comfortable being told to use Google every time you ask a question, but some people prefer talking about things. Maybe hearing about stuff directly from those who have experience with it, etc. Oh, and please, before you respond, don't even go down the road of how the OP could have asked this or said something that way or another. That's just semantic bullsh¡t and I have no desire to hear it.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
ExploreMN said:
So if I say "Wow, you must really be dumb, huh?" Which is also sarcastic, that's OK? It's not rude? I'm just checking because you are, obviously, saying that all things sarcastic are not rude...making you some kind of expert, right? Wait, that's not rude either because its sarcastic! I'm going to love this, because now I can put down or talk down to anyone, as long as I do it sarcastically, and not be considered rude, condescending, or an ass! Awesome!
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Please guys, back to the topic.
ExploreMN, you seems to be an expert with this stuff,
Do I need to be very advanced with Java to develop a simple app?
Or it's ok if I'm a begginer?
Sorry if I'm bothering
Linexus said:
Please guys, back to the topic.
ExploreMN, you seems to be an expert with this stuff,
Do I need to be very advanced with Java to develop a simple app?
Or it's ok if I'm a begginer?
Sorry if I'm bothering
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nah, not a bother. I don't think you need to be am expert. Hell, I learned what I did while in graduate school (nothing computer related), while working full time and raising a newborn baby. I started with two books...Android Programming for Dummies and Android Development is 24 Hours. Those two books alone gave me the basics I needed to do everything and I would guess if you really sat down and worked it, you could chew through them in a few weeks. I was doing about a chapter every 1-2 weeks and had to reread a lot because I would forget things between reading and practice. At your age it probably wouldn't be the same experience. At 42 I've already started the natural cognitive decline that makes learning new and not familiar material more difficult on top of being incredibly busy. LOL
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
ExploreMN said:
Nah, not a bother. I don't think you need to be am expert. Hell, I learned what I did while in graduate school (nothing computer related), while working full time and raising a newborn baby. I started with two books...Android Programming for Dummies and Android Development is 24 Hours. Those two books alone gave me the basics I needed to do everything and I would guess if you really sat down and worked it, you could chew through them in a few weeks. I was doing about a chapter every 1-2 weeks and had to reread a lot because I would forget things between reading and practice. At your age it probably wouldn't be the same experience. At 42 I've already started the natural cognitive decline that makes learning new and not familiar material more difficult on top of being incredibly busy. LOL
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you, I'll read this books.
Are you 42?
Linexus said:
Thank you, I'll read this books.
Are you 42?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Hey, Folks
What's Up ?
I ported this thread from other forum. Need some resize but you know it's fully working for posting and editing.
Here's feature of the Thread :
1. Freely Joking, even your jokes aren't fun
2. This thread also useful for offtopic topic.
Here's unworking feature of the Thread :
1. Spamming
2. Posting Pornographics, sexual pictures, sexual video, or etc...
3. Selling things
4. Say something wasn't good for people around 12 or 11 like f*ck, as*, etc...
5. Whining because your jokes aren't fun
6. Break XDA Rules.
So do you understand what i mean ?
It's mean let's joke up !
nice port, when is the new version coming up? PS: sorry for asking ETA
chemicalrage said:
nice port, when is the new version coming up? PS: sorry for asking ETA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Around 5 and 6 days with fixed bugs, with some nice feature improvements ! There is ETA.
F4uzan said:
I ported this thread from other forum. Need some resize but you know it's fully working for posting and editing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ind: Port dari forum mana tuh?
Eng: Port from which forum?
I'm just curious
PS: Well, good luck for this project
vengeance.RA said:
Ind: Port dari forum mana tuh?
Eng: Port from which forum?
I'm just curious
PS: Well, good luck for this project
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ind : Dari InsaniquariumGuide forum.
Eng : From InsaniQuarium Guide forum.
Are a bit vulgar jokes allowed
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
hsay said:
Are a bit vulgar jokes allowed
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep...
Boy asks girl
"Do you like to party "
Girl :"yes"
Boy :"well then get in and have a ball "
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
hsay said:
Boy asks girl
"Do you like to party "
Girl :"yes"
Boy :"well then get in and have a ball "
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ha ! I liked it !
You: Say ten.
Friend: Ten.
You: Spell ten.
Friend: T-E-N.
You: Say ten, 10 times fast.
Friend: Ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten.
You: Now say ten, 2 times slowly.
Friend: Ten, Ten.
You: What are aluminum cans made out of?
Friend: Tin!
You: Nope! aluminum!
Friend: (._. )
(Sorry for this corny joke, lol)
raensoe said:
You: Say ten.
Friend: Ten.
You: Spell ten.
Friend: T-E-N.
You: Say ten, 10 times fast.
Friend: Ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten.
You: Now say ten, 2 times slowly.
Friend: Ten, Ten.
You: What are aluminum cans made out of?
Friend: Tin!
You: Nope! aluminum!
Friend: (._. )
(Sorry for this corny joke, lol)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha... altrough firstly i through it's very corny joke, but it's not really a corny joke.
Do I have to edit my post for another joke, or should I make another post?
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
raensoe said:
Do I have to edit my post for another joke, or should I make another post?
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can post another one.
Well, I shouldn't be telling you this but, if you want someone to listen to you, start the conversation with "Well, I shouldn't be telling you this"
raensoe said:
Well, I shouldn't be telling you this but, if you want someone to listen to you, start the conversation with "Well, I shouldn't be telling you this"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I already doing this in school
Aren't we all supposed to die in less than a month or was that cancelled?
=================================
Another one
=================================
I was in an English exam and they asked "Write the past tense of 'Think'" I thought and thought about this for ages. Eventually, I went for 'Thunk'
Finally messi scores a girl. She tells him she will be waiting in the changing room. When she goes there she finds three men approaching her and one of them was messi. She looks puzzled and surprised so messi says, "sorry, I can't perform good without xavi and iniesta "
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
There were three guys traveling
in Africa: a Frenchman, a
Japanese, and an American.
They are captured by a tribe of
fierce headhunters. The witch
doctor says to them, "We are
going to slaughter you, but you
might take some comfort in the
fact that we don't believe in
waste here, and that therefore
every part of your body will go
to some use. We will weave
baskets out of your hair, we will
render your bones for glue, and
we will tan your skin and
stretch it over wooden frames
for canoes. Now we are going
to allow you an honorable
death, so I will give you each a
knife and allow you to say some
last words before killing
yourselves."
The Japanese guy yells "Banzai!"
and commits hari-kari.
The French guy yells "Vive la
France!" and slits his throat.
Then the American guy takes
the knife, pokes holes all over
his body, and yells, "There's
your ****ing canoe!"
Sent from my GT-S5570 using Tapatalk 2
People that always view it's PC, every time always doing this :
1. When he hit a car, he said "Undo"
2. When he want to delete something he said "Delete to recycle bin"
3. He search food by saying www.food.com
4. He said Google when he lost something
5. When he see a mouse he said, "Can this mouse plugged to USB Port ?"
6. When he see a key on a board he said "Are these keyboard usable for my PC ?"
A bear tried to bite fog, but mist.
It was an unbearable disappointment.
===================================
All my life I thought air was free.... Until I bought a bag of chips.
So Gizmodo has blamed the "nerds" on the internet for ruining the Xbox One.
So i wrote a "sort of" reply as to why that's not right. Thoughts?
http://www.theupload.geek.nz/2013/06/opinionwhy-it-is-never-okay-to-blame.html
Great Post
exekias said:
So Gizmodo has blamed the "nerds" on the internet for ruining the Xbox One.
So i wrote a "sort of" reply as to why that's not right. Thoughts?
http://www.theupload.geek.nz/2013/06/opinionwhy-it-is-never-okay-to-blame.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great post man and some really good points. Nice site overall, You have just earned a new twitter follower.
FocusHelp said:
Great post man and some really good points. Nice site overall, You have just earned a new twitter follower.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That was the not the reply I was expecting, so Thank you very much.
Your welcome
exekias said:
That was the not the reply I was expecting, so Thank you very much.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You're very welcome:good:
Link to article where gizmodo blamed "us" for ruining the Xbox One?
LoopDoGG79 said:
Link to article where gizmodo blamed "us" for ruining the Xbox One?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
"Article"
If you're familiar with Giz' you know why I put it in air quotes.
Angry Joe also has a video regarding the Xbox One's changed policies in which he mentions those blaming gamers for this "loss":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXdWRJ-xb4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I haven't read the article, nor do I plan to, but I do think that removing the DRM and other restrictions was a step in the right direction for MS.
Also, there's a gaming thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1279620
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using xda app-developers app
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
I read the article. Nowhere does it say XDA did something, nor do I proclaim myself an internet "nerd".
063_XOBX said:
"Article"
If you're familiar with Giz' you know why I put it in air quotes.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Read the "article". Nice argument. But, in the end of the day, the old saying stands true, the customer is always right, no matter how backwards one might think it is.
We have a gaming thread in the sticky roll up, please use that.
Thread closed
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium