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I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on. Do you have anything to say other than an exclamation of incredulity? I already explained th
by codyrobbins 17y ago
I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on. Do you have anything to say other than an exclamation of incredulity? I already explained that an anecdotal comparison of Google hits wouldn’t be very meaningful.
I just asked four non-engineer, non-technical, non-mathemetician friends the following fill-in-the-blank question: ‘The radius of a circle is the distance from the center to the edge. If there are two circles, there are correspondingly two ______.’ Three said radiuses. One said radii, however they pronounced it ‘ray-di-eye’. I asked a similar question with corpus and all four said corpuses.
There is also probably at least some effect due to age here. I'm in my late twenties and my social circle is as well. If you're twenty years older than me, where your language is is twenty years behind mine.
And sorry, data was a stupid example, it doesn't really have anything to do with what I was talking about. Data is already the plural form and I banged it out because nobody really uses datum as the singular. But data seems like a mass noun since the way it’s typically used you don’t really have a single ‘data’. We use a counter, as in piece of data in the same way we say grain of rice.
- Semiapies 17y ago"I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on" Which struck me as a lot of unconvincing verbiage to support an absurd claim. "I just asked four non-engineer, non-technical, non-mathemetician friends" And you have a problem with Google hits? I really have no more time for this.
- axod 17y agoDid you even click on the links I provided from BBC, Cambridge University, Collins dictionary, Oxford dictionary, showing that the plural is usually Radii? And yes, it's pronounced ray-di-eye.