[Buddha-l] Tibetan for...?

[Stephen Hodge]

Richard Hayes wrote:

> It's only because I know that Dr Peavler was pulling our legs that I did 
> not
> have a fit of projectile vomiting when I saw the phrase "this data." 
> People
> who use "data" as a mass noun make me nauseated (NOT nauseous).

It's probably the fault of people in the computer software industry who 
speak of a "database" and not a "datumbase", as it should be if it were a 
count noun -- cf "railway" or, in US parlance, "railroad", where the 
singular count noun is correctly used in the compound.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge