gareth19 (imported) wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:44 pm I suppose that answer escaped most people because fungi is the plural so one can’t be a fungi anymore than an algae (the singular is an alga) and also in English speaking countries the <g> is pronounced as an alveopalatal affricate not a velar stop.
Somehow criticizing a bad pun for bad Latin grammar and pronunciation is kind of funny itself. Sort of misses the whole point of bad punnery. (for bad punnery carried to genius levels check out your daily newspaper comic strip "Frank and Ernest" http://frankandernest.com/comics/index.html)
