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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5469 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes  Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 25 of 29 26 January 2010 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know what circles you run in Captain Haddock, but 'criterion' is common? I don't know if I've ever heard it, though I've heard 'criterias' several times... >_<
and 'datum' I've never heard it used as a singular and only found out myeself last year that it was a singular form by reading it in an old book. And by 'medium', sorry, I was refering to the word in the sense of 'medium of information'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 26 of 29 26 January 2010 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Sure. Say a report or something is talking about evaluation criteria for something. There will be sentences that read something like "one criterion for this evaluation would be…" etc. It gets over 50 million hits on Google. Or, if you want to eliminate non-English and marketing or commercial uses of the word, restricting the results to the English Wikipedia gives 26,500 articles in which the word "criterion" appears. Datum is less frequent, but you see it. A computer manual might refer to the act of writing a single "datum" of information to disk, for example. A paper on statistics might refer to a single value as a datum. Und so weiter. "Datum" appears in 14,100 articles and pages on the English Wikipedia. Edited by Captain Haddock on 26 January 2010 at 2:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5469 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 27 of 29 26 January 2010 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe this is due to my living in a non-English speaking countries most of my life... I'm still not convinced those are widely used in the spoken language though.
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5809 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 28 of 29 26 January 2010 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Medium seems to be quite used in Indian English and consequently in Hindi
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| Rameau Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6107 days ago 149 posts - 258 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanC1, Danish Studies: Swedish, French, Icelandic | Message 29 of 29 27 January 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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It's also quite common in the arts and communications field when describing a particular method for expressing ideas as distinct from all others, e.g. "the cinematic medium". Edited by Rameau on 27 January 2010 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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