No it isn't. Your stature is diminished by hateful behaviour. Cheers, Mike
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, 07:26 Rolf Turner, <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > On 25/06/18 12:03, Bert Gunter wrote: > > Ted, et. al.: > > > > Re: "Data is" vs "data are" ... Heh heh! > > > > "This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put." > > (Attributed to Churchill in one form or another, likely wrongly.) > > > > See here for some semi-authoritative dicussion: > > > > > http://www.onlinegrammar.com.au/top-10-grammar-myths-data-is-plural-so-must-take-a-plural-verb/ > > I beg to differ. "The data was out of date" sounds just plain stupid to > my sensitive ears. > > It's rather like using the phrase "begs the question" to mean "raises > the question" or "invites the question" rather than to carry its > *correct* meaning of "assumes what is to be proved". The fact that the > phrase is almost always used in its *incorrect* sense these days, and > almost never in its *correct* sense, does not diminish the fact that > those who use it incorrectly are ignorant scumbags! The language is > weakened and diminished by the encroachment of incorrect usage. > > > > cheers, > > Rolf > > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Dr. Michael Sumner Software and Database Engineer Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
