[pet peeve/rant] Grammar, people!!

[Algolei]

***Let alone the damn Internet!!!***

Oh! I couldn't even get past the first word, I thought it was IEt. And IE suggests "Indo-European" to me. Subconsciously. I guess.

Plus you spelt "alone" correctly, which naturally could throw anyone off the scent.

Now I must go watch Inuyasha and complain that the characters' mouths don't move to the words.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I bet you get uptight when people say "data" intead of "datum", right?

Come on, chill out. Language changes and evolves.

Nope. "Data" vs. "datum" doesn't bother me.

That said, yes, language changes and evolves. That's not an excuse for people who can't be bothered to use it/learn it properly.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I bet you get uptight when people say "data" intead of "datum", right?

Don't forget 'criteria' for 'criterion'... and 'bicep' for 'biceps'.

-Hyp.

 

[tarchon]

"jive" for "jibe"
"specie" as the singular of "species"
"persay," ya gotta love "persay"

 

[hong]

You know, as long as people realise that the plural of biceps is bicepses and the plural of data is datae, I'm cool.

 

[DaveStebbins]

And IE suggests "Indo-European" to me.

THAT's where you're going wrong. When you start with an incorrect base assumption, everything else after that seems like gibberish.

-Dave
B.S. Industrial Engineering, SUNY Buffalo, 1989
P.E. Industrial Engineering, 1999

 

[Hypersmurf]

You know, as long as people realise that the plural of biceps is bicepses and the plural of data is datae, I'm cool.

Bicepses is an accepted plural form

Datae, er, isn't, but you get that.

-Hyp.

 

[barsoomcore]

Hice

Meese

Jackai

English plurals are fun.

 

[Algolei]

THAT's where you're going wrong. When you start with an incorrect base assumption, everything else after that seems like gibberish.

-Dave
B.S. Industrial Engineering, SUNY Buffalo, 1989
P.E. Industrial Engineering, 1999

If I didn't assume stuff I'd never get anywhere.

For instance, I gotta BS too. But we must all assume my S doesn't stand for what your S stands for.

 

[hong]

Bicepses is an accepted plural form

Datae, er, isn't, but you get that.

Oh, please.

Bacteria -> bacteriae
Katana -> katanae
Ninja -> ninjae

It's not like data -> datae is so hard to accept, now is it?

The level of ignorance on this mailing list is just shocking, I tell you, shocking.