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Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Thursday, January 15, 2004, 14:48
--- PHILIPPE CAQUANT <herodote92@...> a
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> Yes, about peas, there seems to be little logic > there. Maybe one reason is that, if you open > the natural enveloppe of peas, you only see a > few of them there, but if you refer to corn (un > épi de maïs), there are immediately a lot of > grains (hard to count) ??? > > "Any solid can be count". > What about clay ?
Or paste, or glue, ... On peas, there are certainly only about 8 or 10 when you open a pod; but it's when you throw all those peas together in a pot that you get pease. Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .

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