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I'm on your side, but every time you say "a hypermedia" it kills me.
by cxr 3y ago
I'm on your side, but every time you say "a hypermedia" it kills me.
- recursivedoubts 3y agosorry, an hypermedia
- cxr 3y agoThat's not the problem. It's similar to the effect of a garden path sentence: when I encounter the word "a" and then "hypermedia", I'm always expecting something to follow (e.g. "a hypermedia system", "a hypermedia format", etc). Encountering "hypermedia" as a singular noun makes me wince. (The effect isn't ameliorated by modifiers, e.g. "a natural hypermedia".)
- recursivedoubts 3y agooh, sorry! an hypermedium
- plugin-baby 3y agoSimilarly if I ever heard someone say _an_ hotel...
- pmontra 3y agoI'm not a native English speaker so, honest question: isn't h a consonant with its own distinct sound, so a instead of an?
- dimator 3y agoIt depends on the sound of the h. "A house" vs "an honor"
- dragonwriter 3y ago> isn't h a consonant with its own distinct sound Usually, including in “hypermedia”, but “hypermedia” is either an adjective or a mass noun, not a countable noun of which you can have a single instance. “a hypermedia... ” looks like you are using it as an adjective to modify a countable noun, and when there is no noun looks like you forgot the noun; “JSON is not a hypermedia unto itself...” should probably be something “JSON isn’t hypermedia unto itself... ” (I’d actually prefer “JSON, on its own, isn’t hypermedia”, but that gets behind the issue with the use of the indefinite article.
- recursivedoubts 3y agoWe take english grammar from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of uncountable nouns... and we give it back to you... the people.