Dumb question of the morning
Lavasoft’s Ad-aware program is one of many that lacks the extra line of programming code that would change its status report from “One new objects” to “One new object.” Ad-aware is excellent and free, so I don’t mean to carp. I only raise this because it brought to mind the following question:
Why in English is it “zero objects have been found” instead of “zero object has been found”? What makes zero plural? Why can’t we have the flexibility accorded to “no” as in “No objects have been found” or “No object has been found”?
Equal right(s) for zero!
(Need I mention that the rigorous and regular application of the combination of Ad-aware, HijackThis, McAfee, WinPatrol and Spybot is failing to keep my dughter’s XP system free of spyware and malware?)
