The piece of data and the data overall suggest that…
Over categorization is a lie that only causes more problems. Stop the forcing of categorizing things. Just let things exist.
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Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
As Wiktionary puts it:
The word data is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum.
It’s like “hair”. You can hold a single ‘hair’, you can also hold three hairs. But if you’re looking at an entire mane, you ain’t counting, so it’s referred to as “hair” again.
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 months ago
tulliandar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And the word “data” is only one word, so “data is plural”
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Maybe I’m whooshed, but you understand the concept of uncountable nouns, right?
tulliandar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The noun I’m referring to is the word “data” not the data themselves. “Data data” is 2 words, “data” is one word. The word (singular) “data” is plural
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
In Latin, sure. But the word “datum” isn’t a part of English, so we have instead the uncountable noun “data” which is derived from the Latin.
AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Yeah, but for example, IEEE conference paper templates explicitly state “The word ‘data’ is plural, not singilar”. So if you use it with a singular verb you will receive this post in an email and you can only say thank you and change it.