2026-03-04 14:07 UTC
#English #language is weird.
I had a discussion with our Vietnamese guide as to why it is wrong to say “I want to buy some fruits”, although it is common to “buy some vegetables”.
I tried to argue “fruit” was a mass noun, like sugar or sand, but they countered with “fruits of our labor”…
Yeah… but it’s not the same fruit… oh forget it… just take another, well-behaved Indo-European language as a basis for comparison, not English.
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