Re: I suppose this is my most frustrating grammar error

Subject: Re: I suppose this is my most frustrating grammar error
From: kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:03:37 -0700


> No offence to Jeff (only the most recent user of this), but "data" is a
> plural noun.
> Greg


So you'd actually write "No data are available"?

Wow. That looks SO wrong. No sir, I don't like it.

To me this is a case where the way people commonly USE this term should
dictate how you use it in print. And people use it as a singular noun,
IME.

And I think we're not supposed to do grammar debates here, so let me just
say "FrameMaker ROCKS!" There. That should do it. NOW it's about tech
writing.



-Keith Cronin
___________________________

My name is Keith. I'm a recovering technical writer. It's been 41 days
since I used styles.




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