Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 17:29 |
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:08:56 -0500
From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Fascinating! I'd never even THOUGHT of that as a problem. But now that
I think about it, your absolutely right, why isn't "lettuce" and "rice"
countable? ESPECIALLY lettuce, since it's so large, you can easily have
"one lettuce".
Cattle. Furniture.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)