November 19th, 2002, 01:34 AM
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Re: Encyclopedia Malfadorica (Wiki)
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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
*for those of you who don't know, Hydrargyrum is the Latin name of the element mercury, or quicksilver, which is the developer of MOO3... no I didn't know, I looked up the Latin name of the element on Google!
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I knew. But then I have a degree in Chemistry, which would be an unfair advantage here.  It's where the Hg symbol comes from. Hydrargyrum. It literally means water-silver. (Hydros, water; argentum/argyrum, silver.)
However, given that Quicksilver is singular, it should just be Hydrargyra, not Hydrargyrorum. '-orum' is the plural genitive. |