FBI grammar (was Re: FBI utilizing supermarket club cards in profiling)

[Sampo Syreeni]

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 at iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
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