Grammar question time! One of the slides in the seminar I'm in had the bullet points of:
- Lots of data to comprehend
- Data are organized
"Data are organized" looks WRONG to me. Or am I just being clueless?
Bunnies frighten me.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Dec 05, 2012 12:21:22 pm PST #3283 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
flea - Dec 05, 2012 12:22:36 pm PST #3284 of 30001
information libertarian
I got invited to be an external reviewer for some NEH grants. Is it compensated? Of course not. I am sort of getting tired of these pleasant professional honors that don't have any connection to me getting paid. Yes, still not employed.
juliana - Dec 05, 2012 12:25:21 pm PST #3285 of 30001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Is there a simpler way to tidily fasten the back than attaching a snap fastener, but with the end rolled over and stitched down so you can't see it?
Sophia must know the answer to this, but I'm going to say glue, assuming you won't want to use the ribbon again.
I always just glue the ends over and down, and then stitch on hook-and-eye fasteners.
Dana - Dec 05, 2012 12:25:39 pm PST #3286 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Depends on your style but in mine data is treated as plural.
flea - Dec 05, 2012 12:26:07 pm PST #3287 of 30001
information libertarian
Data is technically a plural, so "data are" is correct. But a lot of people are vague about its plural-ness, and "data is" is also common, so that is probably why it feels wrong.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2012 12:51:57 pm PST #3288 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I got invited to be an external reviewer for some NEH grants. Is it compensated? Of course not. I am sort of getting tired of these pleasant professional honors that don't have any connection to me getting paid. Yes, still not employed.
I guess the idea is you get stuff for your resume, and contacts?
I was pretty damned close to breaking into tears in the office, so I took myself out and walked to a restaurant six or eight blocks away, and had a fried fish sandwich and a beer. So crisis averted, but I'm still upset, just not to that level.
And apparently Mom now is being all happy and chatty with people. Yay, but WTF.
Tom Scola - Dec 05, 2012 12:57:15 pm PST #3289 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Mom now is being all happy and chatty with people.
Hopefully a sign that things could get better in the long run.
Steph L. - Dec 05, 2012 1:00:18 pm PST #3290 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Data are organized" looks WRONG to me. Or am I just being clueless?
Our house style is that it's a plural word. To the point that "data is" grates on me terribly. (NPR, I am looking at you.)
erikaj - Dec 05, 2012 1:01:06 pm PST #3291 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sure, now that Suela's pulling her hair out.
erikaj - Dec 05, 2012 1:02:03 pm PST #3292 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't know there was a word for one data.