Space Hobo on Nostr: Wow, this video does the thing that I always used as a counterexample. Like, for me, ...

Wow, this video does the thing that I always used as a counterexample. Like, for me, the phrase "a software" seems grammatically incorrect: like saying "a furniture" or "a produce". The term is a category descriptor, and you need to say "a piece of software" or "an item of produce".

So I'd occasionally ask people "Would you say 'a hardware'??"

The narrator in this video does, repeatedly. He refers to "hardwares" in the plural (my spellchecker put red squigglies under that word!).

Just a complete shift in language that seems to be extremely mainstream now.