On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:20, Steven Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it worth mentioning that the correct phrase is actually "There are no > > data to display" as data is a plural word? I'm kinda a grammar nazi, and > > this bothered me when I first started using tapestry. Is it worth > changing > > the default for the few of us who care/notice? > > :-) Well, if we're going to be pedantic ... I don't think you're > necessarily correct. See > http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/english/data/d0081767.html > and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun, for example. > > It seems to depend on where you live and how it's used. Not all uses > of a group/collective noun require a plural verb. And in this case, to > me at least, "data are" sounds weird. Mind you, that might just mean > it needs to be localised for the various English locales ... and then > we've come full circle. :-D > > Wow, never thought we'd be discussing English on Tap-Dev! ;-) > Yeah, it's one of things that really doesn't matter, yet for some reason my brain always points it out to me. So localization (or some way of overriding it globally) is the real solution, or a different message like "their aint nothin' to show here" would solve it ;-)
