Re: Weekly Vocab #5.3 (original)
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 17, 2006, 0:53 |
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Carsten Becker wrote at 2006-09-16 10:49:41 (-0400)
> Sorry for my English ...
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> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:51:28 -0000, caeruleancentaur
> <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
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> >This bread is mouldy, I urgently need to buy a new one (sic).
>
> What's wrong with that? I meant a new loaf of bread. I guess one
> cannot say it like that in English?
You have to say either "this loaf is mouldy, I need to buy a new one"
or "this bread is mouldy, I need to buy some more". (English mass
nouns differ in the extent to which they can be used as count nouns
meaning a portion or serving, so for other things, particularly
drinks, the structure you have there might be possible. But you'd
never call a loaf of bread "a bread", so it doesn't work.)
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