[rec.crafts.brewing] Re: Drill for Barley Crusher

[T. J. Higgins]

From: Bart Goddard <godd...@netscape.net>
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.brewing
Subject: Re: Drill for Barley Crusher

Steve Bonine <s...@pobox.com> wrote in news:7lke04F3dhkrgU1
@mid.individual.net:

> After all we have anecdotal
> information in this thread that cordless drill work for crushing grain.
>
> How that for pedantic?
>

At little flawed. It's not the anecdote that's the problem,
but the conclusions drawn from it. (So in this case, it's
very much like data.) You read the anecdote and conclude that
it's trying to say "Don't use cordless to crush grain." It's
not. It's saying, "Be careful not to burn up your motor when
crushing grain, especially with a cordless which has limited
power supply."

Now for real pedantism: The old plural of "anecdote" is
"anecdota", which should remind you of the plural of "datum".
Moreover, the "dota" has the exact same etymology as "datum".
Is it turns out to be slightly true that the plural of
anecdote is data.

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