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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: More words stuff
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:06:50 +0000
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- From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
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- In article <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
- >Tim, Tim; glass houses, dear friend. "A hysterical... media"?
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- Kay, Kay, Kay; you're sweet, you're adorable, and you're wrong.
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- "Media" is a collective noun, which may be referenced in the
- singular _or_ the plural, depending on context...
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- Surely the distinction is that the 'new' meaning of media is mass noun
- (whereas 'medium' was a count noun) and it's *still* wrong to use 'A'
- as a quantifier?
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- G
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