Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIf you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database.message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareIf you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database.Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoListen, data is singular, and data is plural. Data goes into a database. It’s comprised of individual components of data. You know it’s true because you read this effortlessly.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoI feel like this is wrong. Source?
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoData and media: two tricky Latin plurals and how to handle them
Listen, data is singular, and data is plural.
Data goes into a database. It’s comprised of individual components of data.
You know it’s true because you read this effortlessly.
Isn’t data the plural of datum?
Not in English.
I feel like this is wrong. Source?
Data and media: two tricky Latin plurals and how to handle them