OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Joe Zeff]

On 02/01/2013 11:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> As the ox ploughs IIRC (or plows if you prefer). I don't know if there
> are any examples of the Romans using that, and the Greeks only did it
> sometimes, probably to annoy people on mailing lists :-)

Very good!  And yes, AFAIK the Romans didn't copy that.  Please 
understand, BTW, that I don't do things like that simply to see if 
anybody understands it.  I do it because I assume that a fair number of 
you will recognize what I'm saying and won't have to ask.

Wandering even farther off-topic for a moment, I often have a problem 
when talking to younger people: I like to make pop culture references, 
and tend to forget that what I'm referring to was way before anybody 
else in the conversation was born.  As an example, does anybody reading 
this know what I mean by "an identical cousin?"