Ocean11 0 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Cheeses are countable anyway. What's the problem? Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 'Is it really?' --I mean -- 'Are they really?' I think it's used in both ways but uncountable would seem to be the preference (depending on context). Eg. "I ate a lot of cheese", "How much cheese do we have?" "That store has many KINDS of cheese" ... ... vs. "I ate a lot of cheeses", "How many cheeses do we have" "That store has many cheeses" But as Soubriquet said, we don't want to get bogged down with form at the expense of meaning. As such, I won't profrede thsi mesage bforee sindingg it Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Ta- da ! Cheeses - meaning kinds of cheese, or multiple individual units of cheese. So ... what's the problem? Link to post Share on other sites
gerard 6 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I seems like my friends didn't recognize the latter meaning of cheese. Maybe my strange Englishes from too much year in Japan has just become a bit of a running gag. Link to post Share on other sites
daver 0 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 where is the cheeseman amist all of this? Link to post Share on other sites
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