Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/05/2009 9:41:23 PM PST by Delacon
Um we Americans dont put a u in color or honor. Nor do we waste our “H”s. When we want to say hello we say hello. What the hell is an “ello” anyway? ;)
Simple, take what you have and manipulate it with appropriate "fudge" factors.
For example, for an accountant, this is characterized as "multiple by zero and then add the answer" or "backing into a number, say retained earnings, tie the balance sheet to the income statement, by ..." - also known as a "plug" number.
For empirical data taken from experimental sampling, use the statistical phenomenon called "oultiers".
Of course, a pattern of said outliers - that is, not a number from nature via the Law of Large Numbers, means that there is a trout to be found in our milk.
“Dara” is the plural of “darum”.
......(the singular is “darum”).....
Are you sure? I thought darum was wheat
Actually, it is redneck as in: I darum to do that again. ;-)
>>And I am still in IT.<<
I am in IT too, and I have experienced the same. It is an uphill battle I fight, but fight it I do.
Nah, Gridley would have been just fine, he was in Manila Bay.
As for the rest, now you’re just messing with me...
—ExIntrepid
Yeah, just like "data"! What do you have against pl but sing or pl in constr ? Live a little!
Since language is, in the end, usage-based, I think "agenda" and "data" are different in their respective degrees of what you might call a bias toward singular status. "Agenda," as it's used, came to be used that way as short-hand for "that list with your agenda on it," so I think it goes down more easily as a singular noun in itself.
I don't think "data" is there yet, partly because of the weight of persisting scientific and economics use of the word. In the specialties, you still hear, "The data say . . ." rather than "says."
I'm not actually familiar with the expressions "pl but sing or pl in constr," but I gather they are the learned ways to refer to this dilemma.
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