Ouch! Thanks for catching it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Spiegel [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 6:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, *obscenities Regards, David On 2022-06-08 06:35, Seymour J Metz wrote: > This abuse of latin-derived plurals leads to such obsenities as "piece of > data" where "datum" would suffice and "medias". > > "Why can't the English learn to speak?";was that in Pygmalian, or added for > My Fair Lady? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7Cf753b100fc4741368df308da493b04f6%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C637902815088319279%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QfqV%2B9NOXfrtUQOTNVnKAMKVuQYF8fK6KL7IfrHgN5g%3D&reserved=0 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > Tom Brennan [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 10:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") > > I heard that one on a radio advertisement the other day, something like, > "All your payroll needs in a single software." > Hurts my ears :) > > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure-web.cisco.com%2F18LoKSoFQLDdgDpWSrqpP8I8ItBv9rPy-lalBn_vk_oddbA5o3ZCljiTF9JQTiDhVZN40P8s9_UpJk0y8gA6OXTuH-XXzaqz1NSEvb-XwjRTOAckrYcNp66RfV51WOTmptIAusealo9Ym2Xk66Asgwj3M3J6FrXhueKzw6R3c6TipnZBoSNATQQXUwiDtyMey1x3Ci3pkFkd6w6t-kNXG_jKZ0CwdPea6_BfK_WxW7TgGRaPVEs1HM44bNSrprIXjj-_cdJ_CDJNI7_qErrFmj1RrIPRdXTk00CwMuwVluf9GbVSzRWQ-TwJ1YM2Bn9yM-jlAH5vXdQ9esV1Rj_hQUJEdTBlbEfhOrs-C1sWEr992Gh77iBM9BbHCV0RG1OBYpYEOJcsNeRBxLN3dCbcBVVoO7nBkR1BRi6_YEAx7EnbSyD44R3Rln96EaPqvFUCYMAyoTY8QDUzf7-h0SYPWBQ%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.paycom.com%252Flearn-more%252Fwhy-paycom%252F&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7Cf753b100fc4741368df308da493b04f6%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C637902815088319279%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kVw%2F7niXzemVmXy8EI2IzNfwfDR92x%2Bb8gPlUu1x7as%3D&reserved=0 > > On 6/7/2022 3:17 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: > >> A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a hardware". > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
