Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "Data points" Message-ID: <607@rtech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 02:07:26 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.607 Posted: Thu Aug 22 02:07:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:33:53 EDT References: <214@tekig4.UUCP> <330@faron.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 24 > > Data and datum are not adjectives. Thus, it is either "a point of data," > or "a datum," not "a data point" [sic]. > > William Ricker It is quite common in English to use nouns as adjectives: automobile tire book cover hair spray ice chest . . . It is reasonable and correct to use "data point" to mean a point in a set of data. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff