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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/111512145999214452">Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 03:05:16 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" title="inthehands@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/53259-48-20231130154634.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Cantrell" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Cantrell</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>This joke [<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111511784701760258" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111511784701760258</a>] and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin">@AdrianRiskin</a>’s reply [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/111511809273857650" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/111511809273857650</a>] got me thinking:</p><p>What •linguistic• pitfalls commonly trip up students / beginners / newcomers in software, math, and stats? I’m looking for ground-level stuff, not esoterica, e.g.:</p><p>matrix / matrices<br>vertex / vertices<br>parenthesis / parentheses</p><p>“code” is a mass noun, no plural</p><p>“data” is a mass noun when it refers to bits/bytes (but “datum” still exists in stats/science contexts, tricky one)</p><p>What else?</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2405195#notice-4753467">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-12-03T03:05:16+09:00" title="Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 03:05:16 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111512145999214452" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111512145999214452">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111511784701760258">Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)</a></h5><div> from <span>Paul Cantrell</span></div></header><div>Shout out to all the math pun households where the plural of “Kleenex” is “Kleenices”</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/111511809273857650">Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 (@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social)</a></h5><div> from <span>Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉</span></div></header><div>@inthehands@hachyderm.io according to my discrete math/linear algebra students kleenices is the plural of kleenicee.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 03:05:16 JSTPaul Cantrell
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This joke [https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111511784701760258] and @AdrianRiskin’s reply [https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/111511809273857650] got me thinking:
What •linguistic• pitfalls commonly trip up students / beginners / newcomers in software, math, and stats? I’m looking for ground-level stuff, not esoterica, e.g.:
matrix / matrices
vertex / vertices
parenthesis / parentheses
“code” is a mass noun, no plural
“data” is a mass noun when it refers to bits/bytes (but “datum” still exists in stats/science contexts, tricky one)
What else?
In conversationabout a year ago from hachyderm.iopermalink
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  Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)
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  Shout out to all the math pun households where the plural of “Kleenex” is “Kleenices”
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  Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 (@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social)
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  @inthehands@hachyderm.io according to my discrete math/linear algebra students kleenices is the plural of kleenicee.

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