%0 Journal Article %T My latin teacher: response to the editorial ¡°Datum isn¡¯t, data are¡± %J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery". %D 2017 %R 10.1503/cjs.1760054 %X As I read the editorial ¡°Datum isn¡¯t; data are,¡±1 I thought about why I already knew this: 4 years of Latin in high school. Although Latin was considered more a logic subject like mathematics than a foreign language course, as a teenager I was fully in agreement with the popular adage %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608569/