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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by frosted-flakes on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:13PM (#26403529)
I like how UK English uses plurals when referring to organizations. Rather than "Google is bad", it's "Google are bad", in recognition of the fact that Google is made up of lots of people.
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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by alblue on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:14AM (#26409359)
That’s because it’s a single organisation. Just because it is made up of tens of thousands of individuals doesn’t stop it being a single entity.

You (and all other humans) are made up of thousands of bacteria and other specialised cells, but we don’t treat you as plural, although you are also a single entity consisting of tens of thousands of components.

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