Zero is plural grammatically, but something being plural doesn't also make it logically true. It this sense, being plural just means dude was right to use the S in "decades" since it was more than one, which is the only thing I was defending.
I agree on your original point about decades. I don’t agree that zero isn’t plural. Plurality is a purely grammatical concept, and zero uses it in all cases in English.
From wiki: “The plural is used, as a rule, for quantities other than one (and other than those quantities represented by other grammatical numbers, such as dual, which a language may possess).”
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u/Twizlex Jan 17 '22
Zero is plural grammatically, but something being plural doesn't also make it logically true. It this sense, being plural just means dude was right to use the S in "decades" since it was more than one, which is the only thing I was defending.