Dear Manfred,
I understand your surprise and indignation, but for the sake of
fairness you might also remember that I argued rather insistently at the end
of last year in favour of the deposition of raw diffraction images, which is
the crux of this problem.
With best wishes,
Gerard.
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:47:26AM +0200, Manfred S. Weiss wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I find this discussion most amazing. Here, we are dealing with the most
> serious issue
> that happened to Macromolecular Crystallography since the Alabama case,
> and the
> whole discussion is centered around singular and plural and Greek and
> Latin words
> and what not.
>
> In psychology such phenomenon is referred to as displacement activity.
>
> If you are interested, here is the MacMillon definition of it:
>
> http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/displacement-activity
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manfred
>
>
> On 01.04.2012 19:35, Gerard Bricogne wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:18:15PM -0400, David Schuller wrote:
>>> On 04/01/12 10:18, Gerard Bricogne wrote:
>>>> Dear Paul,
>>>>
>>>> May I join the mostly silent chorus of Greek/Latin-aware grumps
>>>> who
>>>> wince when seeing "data" treated as singular when it is plural.
>>> When it are plural?
>> Good nit-picking :-) . In my mind the quotes around "data" would
>> have
>> had the same effect as writing 'the word "data"', and referring to that
>> word
>> by the 'it'. So there is only one word, while its grammatical number is
>> plural.
>>
>>
>>> At any rate, I heard a Nobel laureate use it incorrectly just two days
>>> ago.
>> We shouldn't learn to write by imitating Nobel laureates, then.
>>
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Gerard.
>>
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>>> All Things Serve the Beam
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>>> David J. Schuller
>>> modern man in a post-modern world
>>> MacCHESS, Cornell University
>>> schul...@cornell.edu
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