CellarTracker Down?

[Eric_LeVine]

All data is safe…

I understand that this is now considered acceptable usage and I further understand that I am a pedant but this disappoints me (grammatically; practically, I’m very glad that our data are safe).

Eric worked for Microsoft, right? Have you seen the grammar suggestions in Word? Just sayin’.

Low blow… (I even worked on the Word team, but I never had responsibility for the proofing tools.)

[Jason_T]

Maybe I can head over to GrammarBerserkers for my wine discussions.

[John_Morris]

Perhaps the moderators should move this there.

[Joe_G_a_l_e_w_s_k_i]

These days, treating “data” as plural is mostly a matter of grammatical virtue-signaling, and it’s a short step from that to pedantry.

If people commonly used the word datum, I’d have no problem with data being plural. Data is used 99.9% of the time these days, it has replaced datum.

It’s also funny that its singular or plural in different circles, and of course each circle thinks they are right.

[AndrewH]

I understand that this is now considered acceptable usage and I further understand that I am a pedant but this disappoints me (grammatically; practically, I’m very glad that our data are safe).

Eric worked for Microsoft, right? Have you seen the grammar suggestions in Word? Just sayin’.

Low blow… (I even worked on the Word team, but I never had responsibility for the proofing tools.)

Clippy?

(to be fair, Apple’s current autocorrect has at least as many wrong corrections)

[Eric_LeVine]

Eric worked for Microsoft, right? Have you seen the grammar suggestions in Word? Just sayin’.

Low blow… (I even worked on the Word team, but I never had responsibility for the proofing tools.)

Clippy?

(to be fair, Apple’s current autocorrect has at least as many wrong corrections)

I might have worked on areas related to Clippy. I will neither confirm nor deny.

[Joshua_Kates]

These days, treating “data” as plural is mostly a matter of grammatical virtue-signaling, and it’s a short step from that to pedantry.

the definition of irony.

Looks like this one was missed…

[Eric_LeVine]

Hi all. We appear to be suffering a recurrence. We are aware and working on it.

[Kevin_Porter]

Maybe I can head over to GrammarBerserkers for my wine discussions.

Or CTBerserkers for the CellarTracker discussion?

BTW, I’m well aware that Eric and Andrew have begged CT users to use CT Help and CT Fora (see what I did there?) rather than WB for CT questions/issues. I also understand that they can’t do that when CT servers are down.

[Eric_LeVine]

Hi all. We appear to be suffering a recurrence. We are aware and working on it.

OK, mitigated.

[John_Glas]

Reminds me I should probably import my cellartracker into a spreadsheet…

Oh man…reading this made me think just how many hours of my life it would take if I had to start from scratch re-entering my cellar!

Cellar would be easy. Tasting notes not so much.

[Rick_Smith]

Data is plural

Data is single. Now, if he could show emotions, maybe he wouldn’t be single forever.

[YLee]

Data is plural

Data is single. Now, if he could show emotions, maybe he wouldn’t be single forever.

Wasnt their few episodes where he had lovers?