Am 10.07.2020 um 17:20 schrieb SuStel:
In English, the word /data/ occupies a strange place as far as plurals go. It's a relatively late entry from Latin, where /data/ is the plural of /datum./
FYI, in German, "Datum" means "date" (as in "october 12th 1996"). The plural is "Daten", and intesting then to see that the same word "Daten" when talking about computers means "data" (the stuff stored on the hard drive, compare "Datenspeicher" to "data storage"). But, going back, there is no singular form of the things stored on a computer. (Actually, that would be the information, in singular.) It's obviously all overlapping between the languages. Very interesting how learning Klingon is leading to learning from other languages. :-) -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/Word/De-