On 03/18/2017 06:13 PM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 18 Mar 2017 at 19:23:00 +0000, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
Brian:
Stop pissing about. Is the data in /var/lib/apt or not?
I use to have friends like you when I worked in boat yards .... and
ships. They seemed to behave better while talking to someone with a 4"
pipe wrench in hand. Is this what it is about? Not having a wrench
around you?
Nobody likes being shouted at; it is very upsetting. You can tell how
upset I was because I used "Is..." instead of "Are..." in my response.
I don't what exactly you mean by this, I may have lost the connection.
The word "data" is plural. Like "bacteria" or "criteria" or "nuclei" or
"dice".
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Brian.
But "data", being a collective noun, may take either a singular or
plural verb.
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/SubjectVerb.html#collective
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.html