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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by wenc on Friday August 17, 2018 @10:01AM (#17782870)
Not at all. You have misread me. That language evolves is a common used argument (and there is a place for it) but often used as a catch-all argument to justify errors.
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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by SahAssar on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:08PM (#17785585)
But in this case alumni is in common use in that way and has been for some time. You yourself acknowledged that by starting your comment with "Unfortunately, common or not".
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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by wenc on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:42AM (#17786902)
> But in this case alumni is in common use in that way and has been for some time.

I dispute that. Googling doesn't turn up many examples of official usage of alumni in the singular.

I also disagree with your second claim, which is a projection. When I said "common or not", I meant that frequency in itself does not automatically make something correct, and I gave reasons why in a follow-up comment. I didn't claim that usage was common.

I'm not trying to be difficult, but alumni really is plural. Using alumni as singular is not correct.

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