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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once, when I was young and naive, I tried to convince a bunch of my (very educated) senior colleagues that we must use "fora" instead of "forums" when talking about the various sessions available at a large conference. They all rolled their eyes at me. It's not that they didn't know the plural of "forum". It's that certain rules of Latin and other non-English grammar are suspended in common use, and to insist on the correct use as if your Latin teacher was grading you is, well, pretentious. I have come around to seeing it their way. I haven't forgotten what is correct, I have just accepted the conventions. [/quote]

This is a good point. Ack, every time I think of the word "brava," I think of idiotic hollywood types saying it. I could never figure out why it bothered me, because it is, of course, correct. But I think the PP above nailed it. If you eschew the common conventions for the correct, you draw attention to the fact that you know it and assume that others don't.

But....OP, what if you use "bravo," and someone ELSE corrects YOU? I agree with a PP -- choose another word. [/quote]

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