Jay was a week in Turku and the camera was rolling on a few sessions. Here's something that went down:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_CVy8l3CgQ[/youtube]
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haha...Footbagger007 wrote:+1 Annsi is the scariest person on Earth. Do you smile? Ever?For some reason, Anz, you have always been very intimidating to me.
I felt the same way about Norek until I met him.
As hardcore and intense as the Accelerator is, he is also a fun, goofy, guitar playing singer who likes to party.
If you ever get intimidated by Anssi, please refer to the following picture.
Anssi: "Give me the microphone."
BRICK!
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Excellent. I remember our first person to hit nemesis battle Anssi. I guess you convincingly won 
On a technical note though, I don't think the title is correct. "Nemesis" is presumably a Greek word (since Nemesis is a character from Greek mythology) so the plural would either be "nemesis," "nemesises" or perhaps "nemesisodes." The last one would might be the "most" correct, or also wrong but I think any of the others are fine too (my knowledge of Greek grammar is not good enough to know ). Similar to the plural of octopus debate (where there are multiple plurals, but "octopi" is the only wrong one). It's only correct to pluralise words by adding an 'i' at the end if they have a Latin origin.
On a technical note though, I don't think the title is correct. "Nemesis" is presumably a Greek word (since Nemesis is a character from Greek mythology) so the plural would either be "nemesis," "nemesises" or perhaps "nemesisodes." The last one would might be the "most" correct, or also wrong
but I think any of the others are fine too (my knowledge of Greek grammar is not good enough to know ). Similar to the plural of octopus debate (where there are multiple plurals, but "octopi" is the only wrong one). It's only correct to pluralise words by adding an 'i' at the end if they have a Latin origin.
My gut instinct was "nemeses," which I confirmed is playable in Scrabble. "Nemesi," "nemesii," and "nemesises" are not.Jeremy wrote: On a technical note though, I don't think the title is correct. "Nemesis" is presumably a Greek word (since Nemesis is a character from Greek mythology) so the plural would either be "nemesis," "nemesises" or perhaps "nemesisodes." The last one would might be the "most" correct, or also wrong
Hmm, yeah I think that's what I intended to write, since I had to read over my post to see that what I had was different.
I think it's an oxymoron though (except for when talking about the footbag move) because "nemesis" is defined as the arch or ultimate enemy, so can you have more than one nemesis? Google searching defines it also as either the agent of downfall, or an actual downfall, but again, at least in the classical sense, it's hard to see how you could have more than one downfall. I suspect that pluralising "nemesis" is a very modern phenomenon.
Edit; Although I'm no linguist. I only thought it was wrong because I've studied classical lit. and knew that "nemesis" was a Greek god, and that the same pluralisation error (adding an i) occurs with octopus, which I think is talked about in a little box in one of my zoology text books (which an explanation of why it is wrong - ie. that the word is Greek, not Latin).
I think it's an oxymoron though (except for when talking about the footbag move) because "nemesis" is defined as the arch or ultimate enemy, so can you have more than one nemesis? Google searching defines it also as either the agent of downfall, or an actual downfall, but again, at least in the classical sense, it's hard to see how you could have more than one downfall. I suspect that pluralising "nemesis" is a very modern phenomenon.
Edit; Although I'm no linguist. I only thought it was wrong because I've studied classical lit. and knew that "nemesis" was a Greek god, and that the same pluralisation error (adding an i) occurs with octopus, which I think is talked about in a little box in one of my zoology text books (which an explanation of why it is wrong - ie. that the word is Greek, not Latin).