rjw57's Journal: Here goes...

OK well Jennie, my dearest girlfriend, was bickering on at me last night to update/start my blog. Opposed as I am to blogger/livejournal and friends, I suppose /.'s Journal system may be the way forward. Comments are disabled for the moment for no other reason that I'm a nasty boring old fart :). Update: OK, I'm not such a fart now, comments enabled.

Today was pretty boring (so far). Got up at silly-o'clock to have a shower and get into work early for once. Jennie, bless 'er, is ill and stayed in bed snoring away in a disarmingly cute manner.

Managed supreme cunningness wrt the bus and got in before 9am. Been working on The Paper all day, tweaking this that and the other -- I reckon its almost in a state to take away with a pen to make final changes now :)

The Comedy Iceberg [my comic mentors] are doing a show in the ADC tonight -- of course I am going and shall be shouting a variety of silly things to try and make them do. Most emphatically am not going to mention the Welsh, Trebuchets, Lasers or CompScis.

Re:what about jihads?

[rjw57]

Apparently 'jihad' is a verb and hance has no plural. It has been 'nounified' in English and hence would follow the English rules, i.e. 'Jihads'.

Of course in Arabic where one /can/ have plural verbs it is not as simple as that either. 'Jihad' has also been nounified to some extent there and, since there are different pluralisations for male, female and neutral nouns, coupled with the complex broken plural rules means I doubt even the Arabic speakers are sure of the plural :).