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JPAnalyst t1_j33voz8 wrote

I won’t say data are. I know it’s grammatically correct but I’m not doing it. I’m also not going to say datum.

I’m also not changing plural RBIs to RBI in baseball.

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corink420 t1_j344j8u wrote

You’ve never known nonsensical fury if you haven’t been “corrected” for saying RBIs instead of RBI

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JPAnalyst t1_j3476z7 wrote

There are people today who have only known the game since they started saying RBI. I’m old and I’m not changing. 75% of my life we used an S. LOL.

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datagorb t1_j34izt8 wrote

I’m a data professional and I absolutely agree with you, hahaha.

I’m also constantly torn between whether I collect “Walkmans” or “Walkmen” or “Walksman.”

And I change my pronunciation of “data” all willy nilly.

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Valyrian_Tinfoil t1_j351ztd wrote

My statistics professor went on a tangent one day about how the ‘a’ sound in “data” (as in dapper) signifies singular information and “data” as in the character from Star Trek signifies the distribution of information.

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