Crème de la stupid

[muckefuck]

Steve Irwin fans suspected of revenge attacks on stingrays.

On the other hand, I finally had a caller identify herself as "an alumna" of the university. (This after two in a row who described themselves as "an alumni".) She went on to add, "I have three degrees" and I was like, I bet you do! You also know what all those initials stand for, don't you?

Comments

"An almuna?"

[febrile.livejournal.com]

That's just sic [sic] and wrong.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Do you realize how many times I've had to fix ads at work from a person claiming to be a "former alumni"? ^^;;;

[alcarilinque.livejournal.com]

Maybe the 'alumna' studies English, Latin and oh, what else? I don't know, I guess I just get bothered by all sorts of need to use "correct" Latin, when I speak English. On the other hand, I can see wanting to spell a title correctly... There's just no way I'm going to be pluralizing things correctly.

[strongaxe.livejournal.com]

Actually, is 'alumna' actually wrong?
I thought that the word is 'alumnus' (plural 'alumni') which is Latin masculine singular (of which the feminines would be 'alumna' and 'alumnae')

[strongaxe.livejournal.com]

Then again, perhaps she was just leaving 'alumni' plural and switching it into the neuter plural 'alumna'. (This would make the singular 'alumnum', which might be translated as 'one who wears tin-foil hats'? ;))