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Meaning is the same for 'fora' and 'forums', but both are fine and 'forums' is in fact more commonly used: http://grammarist.com/usage/fora-forums/

I suspect same is true for viri/viruses and formulae/formulas but I'm not even worried enough about to check. Me saying 'viri' or 'formulae' would be me being a person I don't want to be.

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It would make you an ignoramus in all things Latin, I assume? Given that "viri" means "(a plurality of) human males"...

You are, of course, correct - unlike those people who write 'viri' or, even more often, 'virii' instead of the correct Latin 'vira' - which, as it happens, is not part of common English use.

He's trolling. It's a useless tangential argument about something that does not affect intended conveyance.

He may be forum sliding, creating crufty noise, to dilute communication.

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