Talk:The Burnt Ones

Still going

Will write the last few summaries in the next couple of days. Needs an info box and will upload fourth edition cover unless someone has a first. Julia Rossi (talk) 10:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Tape

Noticed that audio tape was replaced by cassette tape in "Willy Wagtails" story. Hope it's okay to do this, but the story calls it a tape, (preparing a tape, trimming a tape) and since spooled magnetic tape was used between the 50's and 70's when White was writing, and could be trimmed or lengthened, I've changed it to link to magnetic tape. Appreciate your attention to detail which helped to work this out. Cheers Julia Rossi (talk) 00:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Plurals

This was on the language ref desk stored here for future use if needed: In the book The Burnt Ones the ending of names changes according to whether it's a male or female form, or a family name and then when it's plural. If I say the Alexious family, that's the family name, but if I want to say the Alexiouses in the Greek form, would it be the Alexioi, or something else? Thanks, Julia Rossi (talk) 09:34, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

With respect to pluralization of Classical Greek and Latin names, which dictates -us names be pluralized to -i, Alexioi would indeed seem to be the correct plural. It does sound strange, but that's thanks to the -ous ending being uncommon (compare Comnenus and the likes). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ishtar Dark (talk • contribs) 17:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Except that in unlatinised Greek they end in '-os', not '-us'. Unless 'Alexious' has been Latinised from 'Alexioos', it would appear to have an ending '-ous'. It's anybody's guess what the plural would be: perhaps even something like 'Alexiodes'. --ColinFine (talk) 23:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful answers. Will go ahead with Alexioi in the plot summary unless something else comes up. Meanwhile, I'll post this to the talk page for future reference. Cheers, Julia Rossi (talk) 04:16, 26 June 2008 (UTC)