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Why is "mankinds" invalid despite being in the dictionary? -- [[User:Smjg|smjg]] 20:07, 3 December 2009 (UTC) | Why is "mankinds" invalid despite being in the dictionary? -- [[User:Smjg|smjg]] 20:07, 3 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
− | : I hadn't realised how long this question nobody's been able to answer has been there. And as I look now, {{ | + | : I hadn't realised how long this question nobody's been able to answer has been there. And as I look now, {{word|MANKINDS}} is not listed. Furthermore, it said "some plurals of mass nouns" which is, in and of itself, a contradiction in terms as a mass noun ''by definition'' has no concept of a plural. If you say "three coffees" then you are not pluralising the mass noun "coffee" - you are pluralising the count noun "coffee" that is implicitly derived from the mass noun. So talking of "plurals of mass nouns" is like talking about "past tenses of adjectives". |
: If I'm wrong and the dictionary indeed lists some word as being a plural of a mass noun, please post a link to it here. — [[User:Smjg|Stewart]] ([[User talk:Smjg|talk]]) 00:38, 19 March 2020 (UTC) | : If I'm wrong and the dictionary indeed lists some word as being a plural of a mass noun, please post a link to it here. — [[User:Smjg|Stewart]] ([[User talk:Smjg|talk]]) 00:38, 19 March 2020 (UTC) |
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This article is taken from Wikipedia, which is entirely in line with their licensing, so don't worry. Not to mention the fact that Jono and I wrote 99% of it anyway. Soo 16:06, 22 July 2007 (BST)
There's something inexact in the comparison with the French version. In the French version, the time is 45' for numbers but only 30' for letters ; that should be changed in the article. And in the case of a draw at the end of a game, a "conundrum" (though it is not called that name) is played to break the draw. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.7.253.141 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 2 March 2009
Why is "mankinds" invalid despite being in the dictionary? -- smjg 20:07, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
- I hadn't realised how long this question nobody's been able to answer has been there. And as I look now, MANKINDS is not listed. Furthermore, it said "some plurals of mass nouns" which is, in and of itself, a contradiction in terms as a mass noun by definition has no concept of a plural. If you say "three coffees" then you are not pluralising the mass noun "coffee" - you are pluralising the count noun "coffee" that is implicitly derived from the mass noun. So talking of "plurals of mass nouns" is like talking about "past tenses of adjectives".
- If I'm wrong and the dictionary indeed lists some word as being a plural of a mass noun, please post a link to it here. — Stewart (talk) 00:38, 19 March 2020 (UTC)