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veganmav
10-07-2006, 11:48 PM
Bonuses, or Bonii?
HitNRunPoster
10-08-2006, 12:10 AM
The point isn't what you say, but rather, how smart you sound when you say it, so I use either:

Bonuses "bonusees"

or

Bonii "boney-eye"
2461Badugi
10-08-2006, 01:07 AM
Bonuses. Bonus isn't a noun in Latin.
dlk9s
10-08-2006, 01:22 AM
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Bonuses. Bonus isn't a noun in Latin.

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If you aren't a nit, it's bonii because it's funnier.
LouisCyphre
10-08-2006, 01:30 AM
Why should the plural be "bonii"? If you adhere to Latin grammar rules, it should be boni. If you treat it as an English word, "bonuses" should be the correct form.

Edit: My dictionary says it is "bonuses".
NSchandler
10-08-2006, 01:33 AM
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...rue#Post6914536 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=bonus&Number=6914536&Sear chpage=3&Main=6914536&Words=NSchandler&topic=&Sear ch=true#Post6914536)
2461Badugi
10-08-2006, 02:56 AM
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Bonuses. Bonus isn't a noun in Latin.

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If you aren't a nit, it's bonii because it's funnier.

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Bonii's not all that funny, as words go. Why not call them platypuses? Or octopodes? Or fnords?
maurile
10-08-2006, 03:12 AM
LOL, platypuses. They are funny. Can you imagine a platypus fighting a weasel? ROTFLOL! Platypuses. Ha!
shabun
10-08-2006, 03:52 AM
Isn't Bonii that guy from U2?
ubercuber
10-08-2006, 05:28 AM
I think we had this debate before and it was generally decided that people should put their dictionaries away and go chase bonii, at least by me. It's not Latin, it's not English, it's Whorish. Now start folding!
Pog0
10-08-2006, 05:32 AM
more importantly, what's the plural of compass?
marvin_1935
10-08-2006, 06:03 AM
but it is an adjective.
HitNRunPoster
10-08-2006, 06:26 AM
someone sticky this thread
Wadofella
10-08-2006, 07:09 AM
Bonuses, unless you're a boner.
hogua
10-08-2006, 08:41 AM
"bonii" is gay made up word
vradi
10-08-2006, 11:10 AM
Doesn't this come up at least twice a week?
Zag Nutz
10-08-2006, 11:35 AM
Bonaments?
HSB
10-08-2006, 04:49 PM
Bonoids
Dire
10-08-2006, 04:57 PM
boner
Ali shmali
10-08-2006, 08:45 PM
too bad you can't see the ages of the voters. I'm going to guess the majority of people that voted bonuses are over 25, and the majority of the people that voted on the much more hip and cool term boni, are under 25.
studmuffin
10-08-2006, 10:12 PM
buenos
ubercuber
10-09-2006, 12:42 AM
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too bad you can't see the ages of the voters. I'm going to guess the majority of people that voted bonuses are over 25, and the majority of the people that voted on the much more hip and cool term boni, are under 25.

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I'm over. Way over. /images/graemlins/cool.gif
HesseJam
10-09-2006, 09:26 AM
It's "bonii". End of discussion, morans.
VincereScis
10-09-2006, 10:05 AM
It can't be bonii. Didn't u guys have Latin at school?
If bonus was Latin it would be a male word. The nominativus (first case) plural ends with an "i" not "ii". So if bonus was Latin its plural would be "boni".
jds1201
10-09-2006, 10:58 AM
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"bonii" is gay made up word

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jds1201
10-09-2006, 11:02 AM
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too bad you can't see the IQ of the voters. I'm going to guess the majority of people that voted bonuses are over 25, and the majority of the people that voted on the much more retarded term boni, are under 25.

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FYP
1huskerfan
10-09-2006, 11:33 AM
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It's "bonii". End of discussion, morans.

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LOL @ morans
kdog
10-09-2006, 10:14 PM
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too bad you can't see the ages of the voters. I'm going to guess the majority of people that voted bonuses are over 25, and the majority of the people that voted on the much more hip and cool term boni, are under 25

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Well I don't know if it's hip or cool but I use bonii just because it aggravates all the vocabulary nits. And I'm waaaayyy over 25. /images/graemlins/blush.gif
chopstick
10-09-2006, 10:17 PM
Doesn't matter, as long as people know what you are talking about.
Mark1
10-17-2006, 03:45 AM
I vote 'buenos.' It has a nice ring to it and has an international flavor. As previously stated, the term 'bonii' is not only gayer than gay, but has its roots in the dead language of Latin. Bonus hunting is anything but dead and true hunters are live, active members of society, not like that madman Frist.
Lawman
10-17-2006, 08:24 AM
I refer you to my post in a previous thread:

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"Bonus" is derived from a scond declension Latin adjective meaning "good" so it is not pluralised with the standard "-i" ending as nouns would be (e.g. fungus), in any case it would be boni not bonii).

Many other English words are derived from non-noun Latin words such as "Ignoramus" meaning "we are ignorant", so its plural is "ignoramuses".

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Americans should of course continue to use bonii.
kitaristi0
10-17-2006, 08:33 AM
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It's "bonii". End of discussion, morans.

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LOL @ morans

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lol at you