Re: USAGE: intuitions (Re: ontology of glottalized segments?)

Trebor Jung said:
> And wrote: "Emphatic, my intuitions tell me."
>
> "Intuitions"? Isn't that a mass noun? I've never heard or read it used as
> a count noun. Or was that just a typo?

"I had an intuition about turnips yesterday. I had another intuition about
cumquats the day before. Today I've decided that both of those intuitions
were incorrect."

I don't find anything unusual in that kind of usage. Not that I ever have
intuitions about cumquats. (Turnips, now, are a different matter.)


-- Mark

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