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All I want is a plain game
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:37 pm
by Robert Preston
All I want is a modest game
A quiet game, a gentle game
A straightforward and honest game
To share with BBs on The Bored
2525 Fortnight 2
New format
New annums
More points
Y2K+ Bonus
The new adventure begins on Monday!
Here in River City
And nowhere else
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:41 pm
by jarnon
Annums?
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 8:31 pm
by Vandal
jarnon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:41 pm
Annums?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/annums#English
Noun
annums
plural of annum
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:14 am
by littlebeast13
annii
lb13
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:19 am
by jarnon
I studied Latin many years ago (it was a dead language even then - I’m not that old). I thought maybe the plural should be anna. Looking it up, I see the Latin word is annus, and annum is the form used when it’s the object of a sentence. The plural is anni, or annos when it’s an object.
I’ve never encountered anni, annos or annums in English.
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 9:12 am
by Vandal
I’ve never seen annum used other than “per annum”. I just wanted a fancy way to say “year.”
Despite what the music man says, I don’t want a plain game.
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 9:23 am
by BackInTex
jarnon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:19 am
I studied Latin many years ago (it was a dead language even then - I’m not that old). I thought maybe the plural should be anna. Looking it up, I see the Latin word is annus, and annum is the form used when it’s the object of a sentence. The plural is anni, or annos when it’s an object.
I’ve never encountered anni, annos or annums in English.
Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery wrote:I believe the proper term is anus.
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 10:15 am
by jarnon
Vandal wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 9:12 am
I’ve never seen annum used other than “per annum”
I’ve also seen “annus horribilis” and “Anno Domini” (or “Anno Mundi” in some Jewish texts). Same word with different case suffixes.
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 11:01 am
by Vandal
“Annus horribilis” will be most BBs reaction to the new Y2K+ Bonus.
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 11:26 am
by Pontius Pilates
jarnon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:19 am
I studied Latin many years ago (it was a dead language even then - I’m not that old).
I am that old, and Latin never dies!
Veni! Vidi! Vici! Annus Horribilis!
Re: All I want is a plain game
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 11:27 am
by Pontius Pilates
Goddamn, and it's Good Friday.
I wash my hands of this....