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{{Title text: If you want to have more fun at the expense of language pedants, try developing an hypercorrection habit.}}
[[Person reading from their phone]]
Person: According to this polling data, after Kirk and Picard the most popular Star Trek character are Data.
Person off scene: Augh!
((Below scene))
Annoy grammar pedants on all sides by making "data" singular except when referring to the android.
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