Do you pronounce the word “data” like the Star Trek character? (Day-ta)
I do
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I pronounce it data. Guess I thought everyone did.
Same
I know it's me just being a particular asshole, but I really don't like the pronunciation data... it's honestly tiresome, problematic, and outdated. It's pronounced DATA.
I vacillate between the two. Really depends on the words surrounding “data”.
Yes. I'm British.
Exactly what I was gonna say.
I only say data the way it's said in Star Trek. Same for database.
A local radio DJ said once that if he's feeling fancy he says "Da Ta" like "ta-da!" Cracked me up way more that it should have.
I alternate between the two pronunciations depending on whatever I vibe with at the time, much like with how I spell colour/color
I do, but that's because "now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of beta, we're releasing on time."
If anyone would know how to pronounce it, it's a computer
I pronounce it like that, but I call the character "dah-ta"
One is his name, the other is not
I know it's wrong, but it's ok right? 👉 👈
If Data had feelings, he'd be very upset right now.
For his name I say data but when talking about data I say data but when I say database I say data and when I watch 1986’s Willow with Warwick Davis I say data
What does Willow (1986) have to do with data? Isn't it, like, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy movie?
Oh I bet there's a character with a name that sounds like the word "data".
You should probably watch willow. It’s not terrible. Val kilmer with a sword.
There's a kid who calls her father dada (dadda?...sp?) throughout the movie
Oh same
American. Day-duh.
Data: First, the two A's/vowels:
The first of two A's gets the "Aey" sound, the second gets the "Ah" sound.
Then, because I'm from California, the ah becomes uh.
Then, similarly, the "tuh" has a hard T at the beginning. But again because California/USA, the T becomes a D (British: butter ("buttah", hard t's), usa: budder(soft t's or d's))
Thus: day-duh.
I don’t know, because I have no idea how the Star Trek character says it…
https://youtu.be/nqwx2XFb1fQ
Day-ta
Nope. Definitely don't say it like that!
Do you say it how the woman said it then?
Yep! Though now that I've seen that, I'll use Data's preferred pronunciation when talking about the character
Data thanks you :) you are very respectful
I've taught statistics for over 20 years. I flipflop on this constantly, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Even more disturbing: I don't have a consistent position, at least grammatically, on whether it's singular or plural.
It's sort of like the dual pronunciation of the word 'a' in English. While that has more distinct rules, it's still mostly which one feels nicer.
Another one for me is "route".
edit: On further thought, it only works both ways as a synonym for a highway, if I'm talking about a path more generally the root pronunciation sounds wrong.
How else are you supposed to pronounce it?
Dat a
Brits pronounce it day-ta, Americans, Canadians and Australians pronounce it dah-ta. Data pronounces it Day-ta.
American here, I can't speak for Canada, but I don't think I've ever heard any Americans in the US in real conversations say it differently than it is in Star Trek.
I've lived in nearly every major region of the US, so if there's a place where they still pronounce it like "dah-ta" it must be a very small regional thing. Normal working class people having actual conversions everywhere I've ever been say "day-ta".
I've read before that Patrick Stewart is the reason for that changing, but I don't know if that's true. Seems like an outsized influence for one guy to have on culture, but maybe!
Interesting. From some googling it looks like America is a mix of both but leaning towards day-ta, whereas the other countries are more consistently as I said.
I have a British friend who now lives in Canada and works in tech and has changed the way he says it (from day-ta to dah-ta, or really more like dah-da) for convenience. I had thought that it was an Atlantic divide but seems like there's more to it.
I'm a software developer in Canada. I've only ever heard "day ta"
American with an accent that is functionally General American here: it's day-duh, the t gets flapped. Dah-ta sounds very off to my ears, if anywhere in the US pronounces it that way, it's probably one of the weirder accents from the northeast.
I use them interchangeably 🙈
Yes, i watched TNG before (and during) i learned English
It is pronounced /ˈdætə/.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
Depends on the language I’m speaking, but I usually say da-ta, because data is a Portuguese word for date, and when I switch to English and keep the Portuguese pronunciation (and sometimes I even mix up both words but that’s another story)
Doita?
One is my name, the other is not.
D@-a
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqABNl26ZY&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
This is the way.
If you mean like "Dei-tuh" , then yah . Just sounds more natural to me
Yes, I'm from the UK and that's just how it's said here.
Data, I think because of digimon
As more data becomes available
Then we can start doing more with it
And as we do more with it
That that creates more data
I pronounce it the correct way: dah-tah
how do you pronounce database?
Dah-tah-bah-seh
That is incorrect
I pronounce it ta da~! , jazz hands included
My approach: A single data point is "dah-ta" Some quantity of data is "day-ta"
For example: "I back up my game's save dah-ta in case my hard drive's day-ta gets corrupted"
The singular of data is datum though?
Yes you're right, but then you get into the argument
I'm camp one because I treat data as a collective noun of data-items, not as a plural of datum.
Fair enough - I’d also go with ‘the data is corrupt’ so looks like I must eat my own words!