Masa's Journal: So is the geek culture creating a new language or what?

What the hell is wrong with people? Isn't the normal English enough anymore? Or is it somehow "cooler" to use words like "boxen", "unices" or "virii". Last time I checked the English grammar, using the -s/-es suffix was still acceptable.

With this new "logic", the plural of the word "cactus" would be "cactii". Or "hoax" would become "hoaxen" or "hoaces". Now that sounds really stupid...

Worst thing is that there are no scientific or linguistic basis on any of those fucked-up plurals. Even if these geeks or hackers who use these do normally love to rely on rules and logic.