10 Oct
2001
10 Oct
'01
3:54 p.m.
On 10 Oct 2001, Dr. Evil wrote:
Time was, people knew grammar. Not anymore. Consultant Larry Ponemon needs to hire a grammar consultant to tell him: "_These_ data _were_ so disorganized... There _are_ so _many_ bad data out there..."
There was a time when "data" was purely the plural form of latin "datum". Not anymore. The first example given by the online Merriam-Webster dictionary is, whattayaknow, "the data is plentiful and easily available". Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2