11.26.2010

A Slight Clarification

After reading my post from yesterday, Christian looked at me and said, "Your belly is full of growing baby?"  And that might sound like a strange thing for my husband to say, considering we've known I was pregnant since the end of August, so let me explain.

If you already understand the difference between count nouns and mass nouns, you can skip this paragraph.  If you don't, pay attention, because this is important.  Count nouns refer to things that can be divided into individual, countable units, like apples or cars.  Mass nouns refer to things that can't be counted, because they aren't viewed as individual units; think of as milk or sand.  So as a quick example, money, in its most common usage, is mass noun, while dollar is a count noun.

When I posted yesterday that my belly is "round and full of growing baby," I was using "baby" as a mass noun, referring to all of the developing matter inside of me.  I wasn't talking about a single entity of baby, because there isn't just one in there.

There are two.

10 comments:

  1. This is almost unbelievable! You and your friend Ashton (both with twins ) and at the same time!!
    I am not sure about my mass nouns and count nouns -- but what a coincidence.

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  2. Even more exciting! Double congratulations!

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  3. Oh, got too concerned about my nouns!! Congratulations twofold !

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  4. Jericho's response: Way to go Christian.

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  5. What? You're pregnant?? I just thought you were getting fat.

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  6. Alice - very funny. At least I have twins as my excuse; what was yours with Hayden, again?

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  7. Wow, wow! Huge news! I can't believe both you and Ashton--at the same time--how fun!! I am so happy for you!

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  8. Hope everythings going good and all is well with you Mary.Miss you guys.

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  9. Yay! Two! Awesome. Good luck. I will e-mail you.

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