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|  Message 4074  |
|  Gleb Hlebov to Dallas Hinton  |
|  A pie  |
|  19 Dec 23 08:56:22  |
 REPLY: 1:153/7715.0 58052020 MSGID: 2:5023/24.4222 65812279 CHRS: CP866 2 TZUTC: 0400 + 08:55 [4222] quoting Dallas Hinton -> Alexander Koryagin - 08:55 [4222] TIME Tue 19 Dec 2023 08:55 +0400 Hello Dallas, [...] DH> or even an unimaginable meat and fruit pie!). :-) That's not unheard of, come to think of it. At least there are chicken & pineapple salad recipes and some other "weird" but edible combos. AK>> meat, tomatoes, fruit, and green stuff. I was trying to prove the point to AK that "fruit" can be referred to as an uncountable noun. So, is this usage "grammatical"? I believe the author used "fruit" (not fruits) to imply "the assortment of fruits", like in a smorgasbord. Some other examples, like this one: ======== eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables ======== + 08:55 [4222] session closed, quitting... - bye! --- GoldED+/W64-MSVC 1.1.5 * Origin: Type |
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