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Even further off-topic, but possibly a lucrative money maker

Even further off-topic, but possibly a lucrative money maker

Posted Oct 8, 2008 20:19 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Even further off-topic, but possibly a lucrative money maker by njs
Parent article: Stallman vs. Clouds (Linux Journal)

Amazingly, yes. It still sounds wrong to me, but no longer very wrong.

It's a mass noun to me, but not to everyone.


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Even further off-topic, but possibly a lucrative money maker

Posted Oct 8, 2008 22:39 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

How odd. The standard in academia, on the other hand, remains "data" as a count plural, with people saying "these data" etc., which I am slowly getting used to myself. So all three possibilities are attested in the wild.

I don't know what this has to do with cloud computing, but at least it's more interesting than the top part of the thread...

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