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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- References: <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Dec22.180544.23713@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BzoDAD.Iwx@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:16:03 GMT
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- In article <BzoDAD.Iwx@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.180544.23713@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
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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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- >Media *are not* a collective noun (or, at least they shouldn't be).
- >...
- >Kay, prescriptivist Bad Man and pedantophiliac :)
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- <gasp> And *wrong*! And *very* *very* *wrong*!
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- Even I can tell, dear Kay. If you like, rephrase
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- >>"Media" is a collective noun
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- to
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- >>The word "media" is a collective noun
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