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  14th Apr 2023, 11:30 PM#21  REPORT  
GimmeVinyl

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Malcyramone wrote:
Hawkmarty wrote:
Cheese is a weird one.
I like my cheese.
There are 4 different cheeses on my plate.

Same with fruit.
As in.. a fruit basket, which may hold a variety of fruit. Yet, we are told to eat our fruits and vegetables.


  15th Apr 2023, 3:38 PM#22  REPORT  
zabadak

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GimmeVinyl wrote:
pinkleton123 wrote:
GimmeVinyl wrote:
let me make myself perfectly clear... I do not have "vinyls"!!!

You should get some. Vinyls sound much better than CDs.
Lol... But I do! I own well over 900 of those circular discs that we once referred to as records... And that does include records of the 78 RPM variety that is pressed in shellac..
Shellacs? :whistle:


  16th May 2023, 4:05 AM#23  REPORT  
Break-In Master

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xiphophilos wrote:
Webster's Third New International Dictionary (unabridged edition, 1986) also gives the plural of vinyl as vinyls.
I think that'd be used in the textiles industry, as if someone is talking about the various types of plastics available, "We've got an array of vinyls that could possibly be used.".


  16th May 2023, 4:15 AM#24  REPORT  
Break-In Master

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GimmeVinyl wrote:
Well, hello there my friend! I see there is quite a bit of a debate over this particular subject when one punches in "the plural to vinyl is"... And also the Oxford English Dictionary does not support changing the plural to vinyl to "vinyls".. so it depends on which dictionary one uses as a reference. Another point is where many grammar specialists treat the word "vinyl" as a mass noun, just like the words beer, cheese, fish, sheep, and deer, which do not use a plural and as such do not have an "s"... Ah, the debate continues!
But, if someone specializes in beers from around the world, they can say (as I just did) that they have many beers for sale. Or, if someone's had a few too many beers. Or, someone could ask, "How many beers did you have before getting behind the wheel?"
Same goes for cheeses or fishes. "There are many fishes in the sea." It sounds like you mean various types of fish whereas, if you say, "There are many fish in the sea", you COULD just be talking about one particular type.


  16th May 2023, 4:18 AM#25  REPORT  
Break-In Master

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Malcyramone wrote:
Hawkmarty wrote:
Cheese is a weird one.
I like my cheese.
There are 4 different cheeses on my plate.

Same with fruit.
You could say, "Eat lots of fruits and vegetables." It'd basically mean to eat many kinds of fruit.


  16th May 2023, 4:20 AM#26  REPORT  
Break-In Master

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GimmeVinyl wrote:
Hawkmarty wrote:
Cheese is a weird one.
I like my cheese.
There are 4 different cheeses on my plate.
Ahh... Cheese. If you were to have say, a dinner party, or have some friends over for a wine tasting party, I would offer "Would you care for some cheese? I have several varieties.."
"There are 9000 cheeses around the world."


  16th May 2023, 4:42 AM#27  REPORT  
Break-In Master

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I saw a video 2 months ago of a record store and, on the front of the counter was a sign that said, "If you have vinyls, you will be kicked out of the store!".

The thing is, the kids that grew up in the CD age never call those "albums", which IS what they are! An album is a collection of things (pictures, poems, news clippings, butterflies, stamps, scabs, boogers, and records) housed in a single book. These kids only refer to these shiny silver discs as CD's. I've even heard some call vinyl albums, CD's. They just don't know! And nobody's bothered to teach them. Eventually, someone explains to them that records were made off vinyl so, they assume the correct term for a record is, vinyl, just as the term for what they play is, CD. Therein lies the problem.

I remember how, for some reason, about 20 years ago, my mother started referring to plastic as "plastics". I forget exactly what she was referring to, either a plastic tub (from an empty butter or whipped cream dish) or Saran Wrap type stuff but, she would tell me to put this or that "in some plastics" or, "get some plastics" and I'd always respond, 'What plastics?". She would get annoyed and pin point what she was talking about.
I think it was these huge plastic sheets we had to cover things like bikes, tables, chairs, etc. if they were out in the rain.


  19th May 2023, 2:32 PM#28  REPORT  
Malcyramone SUBS

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Break-In Master wrote:
GimmeVinyl wrote:
Hawkmarty wrote:
Cheese is a weird one.
I like my cheese.
There are 4 different cheeses on my plate.
Ahh... Cheese. If you were to have say, a dinner party, or have some friends over for a wine tasting party, I would offer "Would you care for some cheese? I have several varieties.."
"There are 9000 cheeses around the world."
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny


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