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who the **** says 'the data are bad' ?
I've never heard this in my life.
I've never heard this in my life.
Data is or Data are?
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A VP of Product for my employer, for one.
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It is actually the correct English, but language changes, and using data as singular has become much more acceptable, and interchangeable. Similar to what happened with agendum, and agenda.
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I know are is technically correct, but I refuse to say it because it sounds fucking weird.
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my VP of product just farted audibly on a zoom call, no joke.
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At least it wasn't a shart?
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I hope the camera hopped to him as he did it
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Who posts a link, to an image... in 2020.
@Hbkrusso I know you're from West Virginia m8, but my Lord.
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We know you secretly prefer turd carnivals, so SHUT UP!
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Data is a plural word and thus, following the rules of grammar, it would be correct to say the data are. It has become acceptable and even the norm to say the "data is" because the word, itself, appears and sounds to be singular. So while it has become acceptable and sounds better to say the data is, it is literally incorrect grammar.
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Now THAT was funny.
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Hold me close now, Tony Danza....
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Lol i coulda did an epic screenshot but chose not too
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the truth is funny to you? I think we've hit on your own major malfunction.
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Learn to read a thread before attempting to be clever. Although this post was funny in an ironic way.