#Language #Mathematics #English #Grammar .
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4 Panel comic with 2 snails.Panel 1:
Left snail craws behind right snail and asks: 'English is difficult. When do we use "many" and when do we use "much"?Panel 2:
Right snail answers: '"Many" is for nouns that are countable, like apples. "Much" is for nouns that are not countable, like water.Panel 3:
Left snail concludes: 'So we should say "many rational numbers" and "much real numbers"?Panel 4:
Right snail is turned around to look (with pain?) at left snail. -
@StefanMuelller I think that makes sense!
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I would say, things where you can identify unique items…. But then electrons..@ThreeSigma @StefanMuelller
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@StefanMuelller@lingo.lol But neither real numbers nor (ir)rational numbers are limited?
Probably should have said something like "indefinite" rather than merely "countable"
…and, yes, I get the joke.
Oddly, I tend to far more frequently run into the opposite of this problem ("fewer" versus "less"). -
@StefanMuelller @lexiconista I’m noticing everyone around me (in the Netherlands though, so English as a second language) using “amount” for countable things instead of “number”. Is that a real trend?
@bart @StefanMuelller @lexiconista so much came before many?
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@StefanMuelller @argv_minus_one @ThreeSigma is energy many or much
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@StefanMuelller @argv_minus_one @ThreeSigma is energy many or much
For that, you also need a sufficiently good theory of particle physics.
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I would say, things where you can identify unique items…. But then electrons..Much is certainly open, and many are certainly closed. That much can be said
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@StefanMuelller Missed opportunity to add a Loss.jpg to the green snail's eyes
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@StefanMuelller Number is the noun in both cases. Rational and real are adjectives.
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Much is certainly open, and many are certainly closed. That much can be said
@ThreeSigma @StefanMuelller If one couldn't say much, it's probably because language sentences are countable...
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@StefanMuelller Irrationally, I like this *so* much I referenced it in my display name before I knew about it.
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@argv_minus_one @ThreeSigma @StefanMuelller But perhaps not too good.
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@StefanMuelller linguist vs mathematician. Only one leaves alive.
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@StefanMuelller linguist vs mathematician. Only one leaves alive.
@crouton I studied mathematics for a year from 1989 onwards, when computer science became available in 1990 I switched and I am now a linguistics professor. Am I dad? Did I kill half of me?
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2/ Hm, I feel a little bad since this turns out to be "my" most successful toot on my linguistic account and the content is not by me. At least it is credited in the image. So thanks to snail.and.snail for this great cartoon.
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cc @jendrik
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