Silver Tongue
wuffleton:
“metal-socks:
“moonykun:
“s-video:
“cerberus-9:
“ memeguy-com:
“ They stole how many data
”
Billions of data
”
wait isn’t this correct or close to being correct
”
hackers steal data (just one data)
” ”
Data is the plural form of “datum” so...

wuffleton:

metal-socks:

moonykun:

s-video:

cerberus-9:

memeguy-com:

They stole how many data

Billions of data

wait isn’t this correct or close to being correct

hackers steal data (just one data)

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Data is the plural form of “datum” so this is perfectly correct. It just sounds awkward because we don’t usually phrase “a specific number of datum” like this.

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    One data = a datum (lookit me being “that person”)
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