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Bah. What is the world coming to?Bah. What is the world coming to?Posted Feb 2, 2004 22:54 UTC (Mon) by bbolli (guest, #19153)In reply to: Bah. What is the world coming to? by allesfresser Parent article: Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process > I would personally call it a technical jargon word No, it's plain wrong. "Errata" is the plural form of "erratum", so "erratas" doesn't make sense. *SCNR*
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Erratae Posted Feb 3, 2004 8:41 UTC (Tue) by uwaucs (subscriber, #6160) [Link] Erratas signifies a collection of mere errata. Now, enough of this erratacism on a public board, thank you!
Erratas, erratae Posted Feb 3, 2004 10:23 UTC (Tue) by migloo (guest, #12198) [Link] "Erratas" is just one more Mandrake erratum.and "Erratae" an absolute horror. Errare humanum est, persevare diabolicum.
Erratae Posted Feb 7, 2004 14:32 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] > Erratas signifies a collection of mere errata.Exactly (or perhaps erratae as in the title?). Altho (and yes, I'm deliberately using the "e-spelling" version), Mdk DID still get it wrong as used. As mentioned, "errata" is already plural. However, as commonly used within the community, it refers to a (singular) list of multiple "erratum" as found in a single release. Therefore, within context, "erratas" could be correctly used to refer to multiple such lists, as when referring to the errata pages for multiple serial releases, or for the errata pages for multiple products, as possible when comparing multiple distributions. Thus, the usage would be referring to a plural collection of singular lists of "errata", the plural form of "erratum", since each list would potentially contain multiple single-item error/notes, together with fixes/workarounds, if available. I'd consider that usage correct. However, that's not how it was used in this press release. How Mdk used it here is incorrect, as it still refers to only the single "errata" list or list page, for a single release, not a collection of such pages, covering multiple releases or across multiple products or distributions. Thus, they are only referring to a single "errata" list, and "errata" remains the correct term, with the sort of super-plural term they used therefore incorrect. Compare usage to multiple "classes" of students, with each "class" being both plural and singular in that it refers to a single group of individuals. So, I'd say, with erratas/errata/erratum, tho (e-spelling again) here, its the same root at all three levels, instead of having a different root for the "list" and "accoumlation of lists" level. Of course, lists/list/list-item is the same sort of thing.. Duncan
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