How about "Physics / politics / economics are my favoruite subject"?
Might be fun to see how long we could make that list. It seems to be a fact of life that it's impossible to make a (useful) language that has totally consistent grammar. Something else to consider:I knew an English teacher who frowned on what Rolf wrote (to quote) "...almost never .. " which *should be* "... hardly ever ... " How boring it would be if we all agreed. :-) On Mon, 25-Jun-2018 at 12:16PM +1200, Rolf Turner 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 "The data was out of date" sounds just plain |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. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.
