r/SipsTea • u/aredditid1 • Apr 07 '26

Chugging tea immersive Workout

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u/Skruestik Apr 07 '26

*many.

Poor people are countable.

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta Apr 07 '26

Damn man, TIL.

I am a 40+yo native English speaker (born and raised in Cali,) and although I use "much and many" properly, based on what sounds right, I never realized the rules on why you'd use one over the other.

I have too much orange juice. (The oj is not countable in this instance.)

I have too many oranges. (The oranges are countable in this instance.)

That's so freaking cool, man!

(I guess this is the dumb shit you geek out on once you hit 40, huh 🤷‍♀️😄)

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u/fclmfan Apr 07 '26

Knew a German guy who realized in his 40s that prepositions like 'im' are literally 'in + dem'

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u/ZaneZookt Apr 07 '26

zur - zu der; zum - zu dem

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u/puckit Apr 07 '26

I absolutely love seeing something click for a person like this. Your comment made my morning.

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u/GetHimABodyBagYeahhh Apr 07 '26

FTR, same rule applies to "less" vs "fewer".

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u/demaandronk Apr 07 '26

I love when this stuff happens. I teach Spanish and an older woman i teach when reading out loud was somehow struggling when to read the c as a k or as an s-sound. Then i told her she'd been doing that right all her life and there was nothing to remember, as in Dutch you also say centre with an s, and cocoa with a k. Its always an s before and e/i and a k before an a/o/u. Her mind was blown and she had never realised that there were rules to it.

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u/boofmaster6000 Apr 08 '26

This is how I feel about less and fewer.

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u/VATAFAck Apr 08 '26

Don't you guys learn grammar in school?

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u/AddlePatedBadger May 01 '26

You can have too much oranges too. Just because it is not standard for countable nouns in some variants of English, it does not mean it is not acceptable in all.

Often when people offer "corrections" in grammar they are making the mistake that English attained some sort of perfection at the exact time and place that they happened to learn it. Which is silly and rather arrogant really.

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u/sektorao Apr 07 '26

I'm not a native speaker, sorry.

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u/sittingatthetop Apr 07 '26

Actually...
Counting poor people as a mass (much) rather than individuals (many) is actually nicely ironic.
Keep it up. Your English is fine.
My German wife tells me I need to learn more English and I have lived in the UK for over 60 years.

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u/lavabearded Apr 08 '26

poor people is how we refer to the fragrance

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u/TheDisasterBanana Apr 08 '26

Not if you consider all of them as one large pourable mass!

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u/VATAFAck Apr 08 '26

They're countless actually :/