On 9/15/19 8:50 PM, Justin B Rye wrote:
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
I will move back to "installation media" and to Justins review from
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00082.html
But "media" is a plural word, it should be "medium". It's a Latin word.
Like "agenda"? It doesn't matter whether it was plural in Latin; it
only matters how it behaves in modern English. But as it happens, the
patch doesn't use "media" to refer to a singular CD - it uses "some
media" and "an item of media", the way English-speakers normally do.
At least this dictionary still considers it "media" plural:
https://dict.leo.org/german-english/media
Using "media" for a singular word just sounds weird for anyone knowing
Latin. And FWIW it's also "Medium" in German when talking about one disk.
Adrian
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