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[Aklyon]

Whats the problem with virii, G-Flex? I've heard people complain about it before, but they never said anything but 'No, thats not it.'

[klingon13524]

isn't the fact that you know how to remove the virus the only thing necessary to know anyway? Are you considering keeping it on your computer like a puppy?

Spoiler: I think this is his intention: (click to show/hide)

Ah, what geek( me and many other B12ers,) Doesn't like XKCD?

[G-Flex]

Whats the problem with virii, G-Flex? I've heard people complain about it before, but they never said anything but 'No, thats not it.'

That's... basically all there is to it. "-us" nouns are not pluralized with "-ii". It's some kind of bizarre pseudolatin that doesn't make any sense. You might as well ask why the plural of "chair" isn't "chaissui". You can have a plural noun ending in "-ii" but only if it ends in "-ius" to begin with, and only for certain declensions. "Radius" -> "Radi" (stem) -> "Radii", for instance.

"Virii" is a fake plural that someone, at some point, made up because he thought he knew what he was talking about far more than he did... so pretty typical of 'net geeks. That, or out of irony.

"Virus" was a mass noun in Latin (meaning something like "venom"), and thus doesn't have a plural, hence the use of the more English plural "viruses", which is standard. Trying to consider what its plural would be (if it were a countable noun) is difficult, but also unimportant unless you're trying to speak neo-latin, in which case it's usually (apparently) treated as a second-declension noun with standard pluralization. The "-ii" ending appears nowhere.

[Darvi]

And even if virus got pluralized that way, that's still an i too many.

[G-Flex]

Yeah. In the neo-latin situation I described, apparently "vīrī" is used in the genitive singular case. It's a neuter, however, and would require being masculine for any plural to be "vīrī", which still, of course, is not "virii".