On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 10:03 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An > > still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, > > is to use bacteria as singular. If we are going to anglicise the > > word, which I think is a defensible view, we should make the plural > > to be bacteriums. > > And "criterions" as well, I suppose. In any event I shall continue to > speak and write English the same way I was taught it from 1943 to > 1955, and French as well which I learnt at the same time. Til u die I suppose. Which by the dates, might be soon. But your despise will be here for the record, maybe someday there will be a massive sprint in search for our lost grammatically correct language and you will be regarded as a visionary. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80
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