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How long do you thing that they will turn the already-plural "data" into the hyper-plural "datas"? Or has this already happened, I am too afraid to check.
by atoav 3y ago
How long do you thing that they will turn the already-plural "data" into the hyper-plural "datas"? Or has this already happened, I am too afraid to check.
- andybak 3y agoDatases.
- thehappypm 3y agoNasty datases
- Lio 3y agoDatums? ...and lets not get into the "paninis" situation.
- schrodinger 3y agoEh, devils advocate: when a word becomes more of a loan word than just a usage of its proper origin, doesn’t it make sense to follow the new languages patterns? Different grammatical situation of course but similar in spirit is “latte.” It just means milk in Italian and so in Italy you’d always say cafe latte. But in the states everyone knows it as the coffee drink (Starbucks probably to blame). Same with salsa—just means sauce in Spanish—but it’s become an English word in the states at this point and taken a different meaning. Entree being another more egregious example…
- Lio 3y agoEntree really is a particularly egregious example because it's meaning is different in different English speaking countries.
- FabHK 3y agoI've seen (older) German texts where "Jesus" is declined as in Latin, eg "the apostles Jesu" (=of Jesus, genitive) or "We saw Jesum" (=accusative). Somewhat jarring. As you say - when do you stop?
- nwatson 3y agoData is a mass/uncountable noun now (like meat) rather than a countable noun (like coin/coins). Turning it countable involves a helper noun like data point / data points. "Datum?" Almost nobody uses that in the vernacular.
- atoav 3y agoI have seen it used in more than one software project and I know IT/Software people (including myself) who use it.
- layer8 3y agoDatae
- beAbU 3y agoData /is/ plural. One datum, set of data.
- atoav 3y agoExactly my point