Re:*@gmail.com
by TonyTrapp on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:53AM
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Just one anecdata, but in my case, all of the unwanted signups I get on my gmail address are not due to dots - they are flat out because people input my email address exactly the same way as I would - without dots. I think it's more a side-effect of gmail being "the" global email namespace for millions of people, not because of anything their service itself is doing.
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Sorry to nitpick, but I believe that "anecdata" is strictly plural and as such "one anecdata" is grammatically incorrect. It should probably be just "one anecdote", but if you want to emphasize the "data" aspect, I'd go with "one point of anecdata" or more concisely - "one anecdatum".
Somewhat surprisingly to me, "anecdatum" has apparently never yet appeared in print [0], and I'm happy for the two of us to share credit in coining it.
Anecdata is a humorous term for "anecdotal evidence", i.e. it is not real "data".
I think the problem he has with the word is data is the plural(!) for singular datum. So one data is datum, two cactuses are cacti, and two datas is data. Maybe not always colloquially but technically. Hence anecdatum and anecdata.
Re:*@gmail.com
by seatsniffer on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:21AM
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It depends on where you are. In the US it's like you say. But in the UK for example they will often use data as singular.