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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean Tandy Leather was a thing and they expanded into Tandy Corporation for Tandy Computers. So there is precedence but yeah this screams bubble and pets.com level of stupid.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

AFAIK the ColecoVision is from the same company that made plastic sleds. Think they're gone now - at the very least I know they did nothing about the video game copyrights expiring, making it one of the rare cases where emulating "pirated" copies of their games is perfectly legal.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. There is precedence
  2. There are precedents

One is a countable noun (like 'letters') while the other is an uncountable mass noun (like 'e-mail')

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"There is precedent" is actually correct in this instance. Precedents is not though as it would be plural.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Note that the original has been edited. It used to say "precedence".

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

They mean different things.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bruh. If you're going to correct, be sure you're correct.