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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:09 PM Original message |
Poll question: The word "data" : is it singular or plural? |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Datum is singular; data is plural. |
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targetpractice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. "Data Point" is colloquial for "datum" |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Like "sheep unit" for, well, "sheep." n/t |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's Latin |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. "Data" is singular. |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
5. I added up all the datums, boss. |
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woofless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yes. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. Plural, but illliterates are well on their way to making its singular use officially correct. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's a mass noun. |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 12:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Au contraire, datum is used all the time in engineering applications |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. Plural of datum, |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. plural - data are a bunch of datums. nt |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's an android on Star Trek:TNG |
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