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On 27/08/2013 13:55, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-08-27 08:25, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 nikos@superhost.gr wrote:
>> >Actually it is.
>
> Frankly, it's not.  It's called the Python mailing list because it's
> for discussing *Python*.  Otherwise, it would be called "Python and
> random irrelevant topics" mailing list.
>
> There are plenty of web-hosting forums (forae?) where such topics
> would be appropriate.  I'm sure there are plenty of folks here who
> read SciFi/Fantasy books, or cook, but it's not an appropriate forum
> on which to discuss literature or culinary arts.
>
[snip]
Re Latin:

Singular: forum
Plural: fora

If the plural was "forae" then the singular would be "fora".

However, in English, just use "forums".