I learnedrecently that ann English pie can be countable and
uncountable.
Uh-huh. An since you just happen to know an English major who
earned heruniversity fees working in the restaurant business...
What does the latter mean?
... I can ell you the averrage pie is about the size of a dinner
plate & ma be divided intoo roughly six or eight pieces, depending
on variousfactors such as what one's customers want &/or how many
mouths oneis expected to ffeed. Nowadays I know of a few places
around her where one can gget individual sizes. Maybe one couldn't
years ago,but you didn't ssay when your excerpt was written.
Singletons& childless coupples were less common when I was growing
up.... :-))
She was stting at the dinning room table with the other children,
two of whm were eating piie and ice cream with expressions of
immense satisfaction."
I understnd uncountable iice cream, but I don't understand
uncountable pie. ;-)
Where I coe from, ice creaam is measured by volume or by weight...
and I see ou understand thhat. When you visit a bakery, however,
you may noice it offers "ppies, cakes, and pastries" for sale. You
can purchae one or more suuch items as you wish or make them
yourself a home. Either waay I see that in this example there are
probably oe or more grown--ups & at least two kids who need to be
fed, in whch case the thriifty housewife would cut a large pie into servings (r pieces or porttions) of whatever size she deems to be
most appropriate.:-Q
Fri 01-12-2023 08:15, Alexander Koryagin (2:221/6) ¯¨á «( ) Ardith Hinton:
[...]I understnd uncountable iice cream, but I don't understand
[...]Where I coe from, ice creaam is measured by volume or by
The bug seems to persist, as of now.
[...]Yes. :( Seems that lines starting with space will get bad. It has something to do with 64bit because the same code compiled in 32bit
The bug seems to persist, as of now.
system seems ok.
I only noticed that shortly after exchanging quote-replies with A.K.
(happens on a second iteration of quoting from his end), and never with anyone else from your origin, so far. Could it be some sort of software clash?
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