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all quantities other than one are plural

snowbullsnowbull
edited 2011-06-04 21:35:13 in Media
Cue-bey
This never really annoyed me until they introduced moles to us. Going 0.45 moles just started grating on me, and I have to wonder, why are things like this?

Comments

  • DYREDYRE
    You mean other than 1.

    Because 1 is single.  So if you don't have 1 of something, you don't use the singular.
  • BobBob
    edited 2011-06-04 21:34:32
    If I remember correctly, aren't quantities of zero plural as well?

    I'm pretty sure it's all quantities other than one that are plural.

    Ninja'd.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    edited 2011-06-04 21:36:40
    Cue-bey
    ah fuck

    fucking not thinking

    ^^yes, but we grow up using plurals for number that are greater than 1, so it just seems incongrous to me to use the same...suffix? thing for things less than zero.


  • StormtroperStormtroper
    One kilomole.

    Two half moles.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    I have -1 sex-lives.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2011-06-04 21:41:49
    Other languages have words to make quantities double or triple, like Arabic.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Arabic is a degenerate moon-language used by loud-mouthed prats. They and their doubles and triples can rot.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Don: English used to have a dual number too: it's where "both", "between", etc. come from.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    edited 2011-06-04 21:49:06
    Cue-bey
    Unrelated: Moles are the single greatest unit in the history of human endeavour.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Moles are pretty awesome... as long as you're talking about the chemical measurement rather than the family Talpidae... who are infinitely inferior to badgers.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    Doesn't Russian have a dual number as well?
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