Re: 'together vs. to gather'

--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:
> Yes, number, sorry.
>
> Even in the case of "dust gathered", it looks
> like it
> means: there were several small grains, or
> discontinuous (discrete) quantities of dust
> around,
> and they gathered to a sole (continuous) mass.
I wouldn't interpret it thus; I understand dust
to be a mass, not discrete quantities. And though
there could in fact be discrete quantities of
dust gathering (say, under the davenport and
under the end table); any such units are seen as
parts of a corporate whole.

Now, "dust bunnies" are in fact discrete and
individual agglomerations of dust. "Dust bunny"
is a count noun.

Padraic.


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