J R,
This is a language problem. Unfortunately it is quite common in French, for
example, to translate from a French plural word to what should be, in
English, a collective noun which is only ever used in the singular. Thus,
for example, "logiciels" should translate to "software" but francophones
very often/nearly always come up with "softwares" because "logiciels" is
plural. I've just now seen another post in another list where the word
"advices" appeared, presumably the poster had the word "conseils" in mind.
Why don't the French use "software" and "computer" ("ordinateur"[1]) just
like everybody else? Blame l'Académie française[2]
[1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinateur
[2] http://www.academie-francaise.fr/
Incidentally, a limerick should sound more like the following which I
composed in an inspirational minute reflecting on a real event which had
just taken place - with a couple of exaggerations fully compatible with
poetic licence <g>:
There was a young fellow called Jolly,
Who thought drink an extravagant folly,
'Till we gave him seven
With gin in his lemon
And now he's quite tipsy, by golly!
Chris Mason
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From: "J R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> There once was a person named Rishi,
> Who posted a message most fishy.
> For pluralizing JCL,
> He should rot in hell,
> Though, now commonplace, it's cliche.
>
> Real mainframers don't pluralize JCL!
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