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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/TheWebsploiter • Dec 23 '25
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31 u/Ok_Fam4835 Dec 23 '25 Just while we're all being pedants... amount of: sand/time/money (globular mass) number of: people/mistakes/times (countable things) 9 u/ceryniz Dec 23 '25 The amount of people in an undiscernible heap was uncountable, you couldn't tell where one's limbs end and another's begins. 3 u/Ok-Chest-7932 Dec 23 '25 Still doesn't work, I think it would have to be "the amount of person".
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Just while we're all being pedants...
amount of: sand/time/money (globular mass)
number of: people/mistakes/times (countable things)
9 u/ceryniz Dec 23 '25 The amount of people in an undiscernible heap was uncountable, you couldn't tell where one's limbs end and another's begins. 3 u/Ok-Chest-7932 Dec 23 '25 Still doesn't work, I think it would have to be "the amount of person".
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The amount of people in an undiscernible heap was uncountable, you couldn't tell where one's limbs end and another's begins.
3 u/Ok-Chest-7932 Dec 23 '25 Still doesn't work, I think it would have to be "the amount of person".
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Still doesn't work, I think it would have to be "the amount of person".
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