Re: [tlug] Wifi hotspot access in Tokyo

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On 20/03/2014 01:37, Bruno Raoult wrote:
> you should
> have used genitive for this plural in your sentence (campōrum for the plural
> form).

Well, OK, let's be pedantic.

The sense is "fields-of-KTH", not "KTH-of-fields", so the genitive is 
definitely wrong; subjects of infinite clauses ("I know that...") take the 
accusative. The correct form would be: "scio ut campos KTH (ita vero, sunt 
multiplicēs)..."

But more to the point, the problem is that English doesn't have cases but it 
does have plurals, so campi, while ridiculously affected, is at a push 
grammatically acceptable.  After all, we talk about octopodes; we don't talk 
about octoposi.

Thankfully, there is no require to post to TLUG in grammatically correct 
Classical languages. Perhaps if this thread drifts any further the listmaster 
should consider making one.