Folklore: Other Folk Fora?

Subject: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 05:39 PM

I just had a little snoop (disguised of course) on the fRoots and BBC boards. Megayawn.

Is there any interesting discussion anywhere else?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:21 PM

Fora??

Forum, pl. fori.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:40 PM

Sorry Q, Richard has it right.

Masculine: -us, pl. -i
Feminine: -a, pl. -ae
Neuter: -um, pl. -a

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:58 PM

Hmmm- My college Latin-English Dictionaries have
Forum, i, n. a place... (Collins, Appleton).

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:01 PM

Forum, Fivum, Sixum???
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 08:16 PM

A Forum by any other name wont compare to mudcat !

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 08:42 PM

Some 'other' Fora (whatever) have a more focused outlook....specialty places with more rigidly defined & controlled objectives.

Like grocery stores which sell a narrow range of products, they have their uses and adherents. Mudcat, by Max's choice, is a lot wider in it's scope...especially in the BS area...., thus it gets a lot of traffic. It is also 13 years old and had the database to attract folks.

I, personally, wish there was less pop and rock & such tossed in, but Max doesn't want those restrictions, so *shrug*

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 09:10 PM

Take a moment to contemplate the beauty of forams:

elegant little creatures

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In my ambles I have never come across anything quite like the Mudcat. Do you want a translation from medieval Catalan? A recipe that uses Marmite? Lyrics for a song your grandmother sang? The Mudcat is the place.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 09:43 PM

Others specialize in the study of the foramen (pl. foramena)- an opening, or orifice.
(the egressus could be down and dirty)

The Oxford English Dictionary has not yet come to terms with 'fora.' (What one shouts after one strikes a golf ball?)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 09:47 PM

I thought this thread was talking about flowers collected from folk musicians...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 10:50 PM

Wasn't there an old song about Foradora girls?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Other Folk Fora?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Jun 09 - 03:46 AM

Q

fori is the genitive singular - some online dictionaries do not make this clear.

Regards