Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

On 9/15/19 8:50 PM, Justin B Rye wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>>> I will move back to "installation media" and to Justins review from
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00082.html
>>
>> But "media" is a plural word, it should be "medium". It's a Latin word.
> 
> Like "agenda"?  It doesn't matter whether it was plural in Latin; it
> only matters how it behaves in modern English.  But as it happens, the
> patch doesn't use "media" to refer to a singular CD - it uses "some
> media" and "an item of media", the way English-speakers normally do.

At least this dictionary still considers it "media" plural:

https://dict.leo.org/german-english/media

Using "media" for a singular word just sounds weird for anyone knowing
Latin. And FWIW it's also "Medium" in German when talking about one disk.

Adrian