Pretty Databases. I've never seen a data room in the real world this pretty. Maybe google.
The English language is full of weird confusing things. Some would say that it's simply bizarre. Pluralizing words and making them verbs depends on the world. The Plural of ox is oxen where box boxes. Why not 'boxen'? Then there are crazy sentences like this:
All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.
Why Databases should be renamed
One of my favorites, to steal from 'Eats, shoots, and leaves', (Wiki: Eats, shoots, and leaves) is how you place the comma.
So English is crazy. So what.
All the Cool Things Get It
If English is already crazy, then let's have fun with it. All the cool plural words get fun names.
A pack of crows is called a murder.
One moose is a moose. Two moose is still moose. A group of owls is a parliament. A group of nuns is a superfluity. What does that even mean?
Here's a List of other crazy fun collectives:
- Labor of Moles
- Shrewdness of Apes
- Gam of Whales
- Pass of Asses
- Kindle of Kittens
- Smack of Jellyfish
- Host of Angels
- Hand of Bananas
- Fusillade of Bullets
- Baptism of Fire
- Tissue of lies
- Murder of Crows
- Shock of Corn
- Knot of Toads
- Business of Ferrets
- Parliament of Owls
- Superfluity of Nuns
- Mustering of Storks
- Unkindness of Ravens
- Dule of Doves
- Clowder, Cluster, or Clutter of Cats
- Mute of Hounds
- Abominable Sight of Monks
- Charm of Finches
- Gaggle of Gossips
- Fighting of Beggars
- Neverthriving of Jugglers
- Wedge of Swans (when flying)
- Hill of Beans
- Hastiness of Cooks
- College of Cardinals
- Ostentation of Peacocks
- String of Ponies
- Untruth of Summoners
- Herd of Harlots
- Worship of Writers
- Band of Men
- Quiver of Arrows
- Team of Ducks (when flying)
- Paddling of Ducks (when on water)
- Trip of Goats
- Sloth, or Sleuth, of Bears
- Doctrine of Doctors
- Damning of Jurors
- Sentence of Judges
- Rascal of Boys
- Gaggle of Women
- Impatience of Wives
- Tabernacle of Bakers
Poverty of Pipers
A Murder
A Murder of Crows
Caw Caw. The Norse thought these were the harbingers of the gods.
Databases are Awesome, and they need some love
Databases need some love. They run everything in our world today. They help you wake up with your database of various alarms on your phone, and hold a list of your favorite memes. They help run everything from roadways to taxes. The control companies as big as google, and as small as your local library.
So with all of that awesomeness why not give these databases some love. They control everything they inform us of the millions of things that you need. They are our informants.