POTI and FLOTI attended Mandela's memorial

[Recursion]

My wife claims that is an inexcusable mangling of English. I think it conveys my message. Thoughts?

[In_The_Wind]

1. Those are terms that have been accepted as correct.

[antiquie]

2. The?

Thank you for all of your wonderful posts with pictures and cultural information. I really enjoyed both of your weddings.

[KamaAina]

3. I don't think POTI is the plural of POTUS

or FLOTI of FLOTUS. Is more than one bonus "boni"?

[Chan790]

4. I assumed he was talking about India. n/t

[Recursion]

5. Oh, sorry, no, I meant the US

potus -> poti, as if it were a Latin second declension noun.

[Chan790]

6. Interestingly, I have no idea or opinion what the plural of POTUS is...

I've always kind of wished the title didn't outlast the job. Senators and Congresspeople too.

To me, only Obama is POTUS...Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and the George Bushes are private citizens again. It mildly irks me that they receive any title or honorific. It strikes me as contrary to what makes American governance special...we elect a leader from and are governed by our peers.

[Bucky]

7. In a world where people track their PIN numbers on their PC computers...

A little creativity doesn't hurt. It doesn't mangle the language to allow acronyms to evolve into words in their own right. People who spell snafu and scuba without caps or periods are following that evolution.

Speaking of "are following", did you know that Shakespeare never used the progressive tense (a verb of being followed by a participle, e.g., "are following" or "is saying" or "am dressing&quot ? That verb tense didn't exist until the 18th century. The language evolved. Laissez faire, I say.