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Posted about a year ago.
An unforgivable sin
Datum:
Data:
Spin
Spiners
That’s beautiful
data is a collective noun
collective nouns are like “team” or “group”, they’re happy to be “a team” or “one group”
data doesn’t work like that, people say “a data point”, or “one piece/item of data”. (because datum is almost a dead word)
it’s more accurate to say data is a mass noun, a. k.a. an uncountable noun, like air, sand, rice.
This also works with tomato and tomato.
B’elanna would have no idea what Sarsaparilla is. (And apparently the lyrics spell it wrong)
B’elanna would have no idea what Sarsaparilla is.
Serious question, why not? She grew up with a human family.
And if you hang around Tom Paris long enough, you willl become an expert in 20th century pop culture.
Being with Tom, he would be the one most likely to inform her. She doesn’t show much predilection for 19th-20th century culture. Oddly enough, root beer made it forward. No word on sarsparilla.
You bet your britches it’s in the Starfleet replicator database.
Not pictured: that one guy that said “you probably meant to say datum” (he’s in 4 pieces in a tree)
I love how this medieval knight decided to use a recently invented folding lawn chair to do battle with his opponent.
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So if data (or is it data?) is plural, what is the singular form then? Date? Like in … dating? 😍
Datum
Damned near killed 'um.
What happened to Data’s Proctologist?
He started the exam but then… Data rectum.
Datum
People who are data.
Who do data like they’re data
To see why this is, replace the word “Data” with the word “cows” in a sentence:
“I need to transfer this cows.”
No
“I need to transfer these cows.” = “I need to transfer these data.” - This is correct!
now change the word “cows” in your example to “water”.
I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
If you did that, then you would be wrong.
Fun fact.
1 fish
10 fish (e.g. all blue fin tuna)
10 fishes (different kinds of fish)
I’m not sure what your point is here. Are you making a joke?
“I need to transfer this herd.” = “I need to transfer this data.” - This is correct!
It’s not. Herd is a singular noun, and data is plural.
Actually, data can be singular or plural based on context. I realize English is one bitch of a language.
Either you edited your comment or I misread it
Can you back up that claim with any…DATA, my good chum?I don’t see the edit indicator on it so I think you misread it.
HOLY. It’s not hard to look up:
- https://grammarist.com/usage/data/
- https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/data-is-or-data-are/
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
Those are just the top 3 results from my search.
