The word 'media'

[jpgray]

Poll question: The word 'media'

[LiberalVoice]

1. You forgot one option...

The "I hate you for making me read all these options" option.

Damn you! :P

[loveable liberal]

2. dangit...i hit the "im a dumbass" vote.....

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Yes, media is the plural of medium...

like "data" is the plural of "datum", and "fora" is the plural of "forum", u.s.w. (One would think that you'd have resigned yourself to the fact that 90% of the population doesn't know how to use the language properly...)

[asthmaticeog]

4. But if I told people

that I worked in a medium, they'd think I was talking about uniform size. So the grammatically and technically incorrect "I'm in media" is necessary for clarity.

edit: misspelled "grammatically." Haw haw!

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. That's why you tell people which medium you work in...

"I'm in radio", for instance...

[pagerbear]

9. "...in which medium you work..."

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[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Just don't tell the Meeting Room that.

"Oooh! You're a medium? That is soooooo groovy."

[asthmaticeog]

8. Actually, I'm an XL.

*rimshot*









*ducks thrown objects*









*flees stage*

[eyesroll]

7. The media are. The medium is.

I will accept "media" as kind of a generic class -- I work in media. I am the very model of the modern liberal media. But, my specific medium is print magazine.

I actually got into an argument WITH A READER OF MY MAGAZINE who wanted to point out our crappy grammar. I actually ended up faxing him a page from the AP stylebook to shut him up.

[pagerbear]

10. Much as I'm a stickler for traditionally "correct" useage

...there is no escaping the "norma loquendi"--the popular useage of the day. What some of us consider sloppy language useage today might become the traditionally correct useage of tomorrow. Language evolves. (I myself am still mourning the loss of the familiar "thou" and "ye".)

[LynzM]

11. Hey Pagerbear,

I do believe that's 'usage' you're looking for? ;)

[pagerbear]

12. See? I'm evolving the normal loquendi myself!

[LynzM]

14. ROFL

I think you're right on what you said, though, regardless of spelling. Or should that be irregardless? :eyes:

[TheMightyFavog]

13. Other:

The Media is the Massage