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Post subject: Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Wed June 15, 2022 7:33 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32522 Location: Where everybody knows your name
Bammer wrote:
tree_ wrote:
B wrote:
tree_ wrote:
when ppl and ads be like, "2 pair"
cause like, there're two, and a pair is two, so they get confused
cause usually if they say 3, or 4, they will say appropriately "pairs"
Hmmmm .... Wouldn't "4" imply 4 things (either the same or slightly different) and "2 pair" imply 2 matching things and 2 other matching things?
I could go in my closet and pull out 2 pairs of shoes or 4 shoes and end up with very different things.
It's as simple as this: "1 pair" is the only time you say "pair", singular; while when you have 2 or more pairs of something, you're supposed to say "pairs", not "2 pair" or "3 pair". For some reason this is a very commonly difficult concept to grasp for many people. I believe, as stated before, it is because when people think "pair", they think 2, and when they think they have 2 pairs of something it's as if it's already a singular pair, so they stupidly get confused. It's similar to how people get confused about "texted", past tense, thinking "text" is enough, because it already sounds like there's a past tense "ed" there to them.
I was right about Tree’s hatred on this.
B, on the other hand, uses 2/10 as part of his rating system.
Wease…not sure what to say about wease.
Oh, you know exactly what to say about Wease.
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