GUESS MY WORD 2

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Ant_222

#512548 Sun, 11 May 08 07:56 PM

Mr. Micawber:
«It has ten letters, three of which are represented twice.»

It has seven unique letters then?
Let's discuss the second part of your noun. How many letters, abstract or concrete?

Ant_222

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Nouns

Mister Micawber

#512576 Sun, 11 May 08 10:48 PM

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Some of them/it are bigger than a bread box. I have a confusion of pronouns because my noun is uncountable.
Yes, one little word, seven different little letters... The last four are concrete-- and of course uncountable.

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Nouns, Pronouns

Ant_222

#512582 Sun, 11 May 08 11:22 PM

Is this last noun a verbal noun? Does it denote some substance (and is ~~whence~~ thence uncountable)?

Ant_222

Nouns

Mister Micawber

#512585 Sun, 11 May 08 11:48 PM

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Verbal noun? No.
A substance? Yes, of course -- it is concrete -- but I think the affirmative will confuse.

(Hmm. Two hyphens at either end of a parenthetical remark strike out the words between. I didn't know that.)

Mister Micawber

Hyphens, Nouns

Yankee

#512666 Mon, 12 May 08 07:30 AM

Is it commonly found in a house or an apartment?

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Mister Micawber

#512671 Mon, 12 May 08 07:55 AM

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Yes-- mostly those of hippies and grandmothers, I suppose.

Mister Micawber

Ant_222

#512739 Mon, 12 May 08 12:24 PM

Mr. Micawaber:

This four-letter noun, on what level is it uncountable — like water, like sand or like fish?
Is it artificial? Does it exist on its own, apart from compound nouns?

«Two hyphens at either end of a parenthetical remark strike out the words between»
To type a em-dash in Windows, turn numlock on, hold ALT and type 0151 on the numeric keypad ;)

Ant_222

Hyphens, Nouns

Mister Micawber

#512771 Mon, 12 May 08 01:23 PM

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I see sand and water as uncountable and fish as countable. Please advise me of the levels of countability. In what sense artificial? The base noun exists alone.

(Thanks for the m-dash. I'll try it, but it sounds much too slow for me: — . Nice, but two hyphens work quicker.)

Mister Micawber

Hyphens, Nouns

Ant_222

#512781 Mon, 12 May 08 01:44 PM

«Please advise me of the levels of countability»

Very low level: Water (molecules)
Higher level: Sand (grains, much larger than molecules...)

«In what sense artificial»
Man-made.

Ant_222

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