Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 15, 2004, 14:48 |
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--- PHILIPPE CAQUANT <herodote92@...> a
scris:
> 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.
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