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Not being snarky, but you really need a copywriter to review the wording on your site. dayly (should be daily) the data are encrypted Over 10.000 companies j

• morgante 11y ago
  > Not being snarky, but you really need a copywriter to review the wording on your site. It looks like they're a German company, so it would definitely be valuable to get a native English speaker to review the site.
  • onli 11y ago
    > Over 10.000 companies joined Stackfield Yeah. Took me a while to see the error in that sentence, it's a good example. In german we write that with a . and not with a , which explain this one.
• bshimmin 11y ago
  the data are encrypted is correct - "data" is plural.
  • smhg 11y ago
    Language is a convention. It can change. The convention seems to be the data is these days. Like agenda, which took the same road in the past.
  • adrianN 11y ago
    Language Log has a post about this topic http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4396 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4396 I quote: "My own view is that there are contexts where it’s okay to treat data as a plural, but none in which you can’t treat it as a singular—and that contrary to what many “reasonable” usage writers counsel, this isn't simply a matter of “style and personal preference.” " Other, shorter, humorous, posts about data: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4401 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4401 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14970 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14970 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20635 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20635