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Originally Posted by senor rubirosa  SLB, empirical data do is correct, actually ... more so than empirical data does. Data is plural.
But in English, the distinction is being lost, and some authorities would accept your preference, I believe.
Rub it in. Rub it in.  |
Must take this opportunity to appreciate seniority in more than Rubirosiaisme only (although we could fight about who is more Porfirio-like perhaps--I mean, after all, Zsa, Zsa is still with us carrying on the folklore with or without resort to the oral tradition--oh yes, we could fight like males do and females don't, of course, given the absence of bitch factor they enjoy), because I, having lost most of my pedantry in favour of Ample Crotch Syndrome, nevertheless am quite as intolerant as you in terms of poor grammar. What you say about 'in English, the distinction is being lost' is so the horrified understatement of both our kindred-spirit minds. Of course 'data do' is correct.
Now, another 'lost distinction' or two would include that appalling insistence on 'a couple drinks' and an almost universal resistance to 'different from'. When I say the latter, people now behave not quite as though I've said something incorrect (they have an atavistic memory of grammar books and their adorable exercises), but rather the usual postmodern fuzzy look when anyone wants to stop pretending overt mistakes are to be equated with, say, moral relativism, something many of them would be most hard-pressed to define and/or describe.
But even Josh Marshall will not get rid of the fucking 'couple days longer' and there is also 'I graduated NYU', etc. Now, when certain drag queens want to teach me Trannie Ebonics, I thoroughly enjoy this, although there is often a tendency not to countenance concentration of any kind among trannies...this led to my repudiation on Squirt.org by one Watusi Jenkins of West Hollywood even after I complimented her on the use of the term 'refrezhenents' for the 'refreshments' she would bring to a well-known Fellatio Club on Santa Monica Boulevard...who was bringing them to celebrate 'St. Patricia's Day.' Other Trannie-isms include 'I loved-ed you', and 'where's Miss Bloombergs-ez-ez booth?' and 'I had Zex with 2 thiny veiny dicz up my flushed ass.'
But here we have not a candidate for DCBE. Kiri Tekanawa Ms. Jenkins is not...
Rubi--while I am a dreadfully promiscuous dick-sucker and dick-suckee in real life, as well as loving several men in the depleted virtual way on LPSG, I am fairly certain we would have a wonderful life as each other's extremely bad husbands. God, I love bad husbands and am one myself! All I CARE about is handsomeness and hungness, and I am almost sure that you and I both have both--in SPADES!
This thread isn't about you babe. You are cuter than a speckled pup, adorable even, but you have more of the boy next door good looks than what I think the article has in mind.
