TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world NegativeNull @lemmy.world 1y ago Data is a plural cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/18714096 1 crossposts Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 1y ago Data is a plural
collective nouns are like "team" or "group", they're happy to be "a team" or "one group"data doesn't work like that, people say "a data point", or "one piece/item of data". (because datum is almost a dead word)it's more accurate to say data is a mass noun, a. k.a. an uncountable noun, like air, sand, rice.
I love how this medieval knight decided to use a recently invented folding lawn chair to do battle with his opponent.
To see why this is, replace the word "Data" with the word "cows" in a sentence:"I need to transfer this cows."No"I need to transfer these cows." = "I need to transfer these data." - This is correct!
Posted about a year ago.
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