by DonRetrasado » Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:29 am
sotic wrote:Sandwiches wrote:Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that
try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that 'people' started out singular and only somewhat recently became a synonym for 'persons'. DR, thoughts?
According to Wiktionary, anyway, which is where I get all my facts.
[quote="sotic"][quote="Sandwiches"][quote="Grammar_Nazi"]Not to mention the people that [color=#FF0000]try[/color] to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer :D[/quote]
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.[/quote]
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that 'people' started out singular and only somewhat recently became a synonym for 'persons'. DR, thoughts?[/quote]
According to Wiktionary, anyway, which is where I get all my facts.