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Jace:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 20 Jun 2013, 13:25 ---
--- Quote from: Jace on 20 Jun 2013, 13:23 ---Spatzle is so fucking good.
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Sorry for being a German smartass once again, but this just hurts. "Spätzle" is a word which is always in Plural.
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Oh I just sometimes talk with real bad grammar. Aint no thang wrt plural or singular but I did consider putting are rather than is, in the end Iffigure I ain't one to go too hard with it so I let it be
jwhouk:
And another thread effectively derailed! :)
mtmerrick:
--- Quote from: Akima on 20 Jun 2013, 16:22 ---I never use the singular "graffito" but I do normally treat graffiti as a plural, as I do media and data, so I would say "There are a lot of graffiti on that wall."
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that just sounds wrong to me... i'd say "there is a lot of graffiti on that wall". say, like you would use the word art, or puke. :P
J:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Jace on 20 Jun 2013, 17:22 ---
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 20 Jun 2013, 13:25 ---
--- Quote from: Jace on 20 Jun 2013, 13:23 ---Spatzle is so fucking good.
--- End quote ---
Sorry for being a German smartass once again, but this just hurts. "Spätzle" is a word which is always in Plural.
--- End quote ---
Oh I just sometimes talk with real bad grammar. Aint no thang wrt plural or singular but I did consider putting are rather than is, in the end Iffigure I ain't one to go too hard with it so I let it be
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No, Jace, you got it right - that's what Papersatan and Akima are saying. Spatzle, as a dish, is good, just as rice is good, plural or not. You can talk about the individual little dumpling-like noodle things if you like, but it's not a collective noun or anything. It's still treated in the singular - "the popcorn is buttered", for example.
All this talk about countable or uncountable just makes me think of the mathematical definitions of those terms...
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