Row 65344

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>English has like three irregular nouns and most of the time they are used in their irregular/latin/whatever form only by pedantic people trying to look smart.

Not really. Bacteria, trivia, radii, media. These are pretty commonplace words.

>But language is not defined by the dictionary, it's described by it,

There are two types, descriptive and prescriptive. Would you argue that "literally" means exactly - without exaggeration or metaphor - or does it just mean the same as "really"? There are dictionaries that define it each way depending on whether theyre prescriptive or descriptive.

>Just the fact that "data are" sounds weird is enough to discredit its common usage

Sounds weird to you maybe. I think it sounds fine. In fact it sounds better than data is. It just comes down to how used you are to hearing each

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