• no answer test 2

    From Alexander Koryagin@2:221/6 to Ardith Hinton on Thu Nov 30 10:03:42 2023

    Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin
    I read your message from 25.11.2023 00:02

    I learnedrecently that ann English pie can be countable and
    uncountable.

    Uh-huh. An since you just happen to know an English major who
    earned heruniversity fees working in the restaurant business...

    What does the latter mean?

    bla-bla-bla

    ... I can ell you the averrage pie is about the size of a dinner
    plate & ma be divided intoo roughly six or eight pieces, depending
    on variousfactors such as what one's customers want &/or how many
    mouths oneis expected to ffeed. Nowadays I know of a few places
    around her where one can gget individual sizes. Maybe one couldn't
    years ago,but you didn't ssay when your excerpt was written.
    Singletons& childless coupples were less common when I was growing
    up.... :-))

    bla-bla-bla

    She was stting at the dinning room table with the other children,
    two of whm were eating piie and ice cream with expressions of
    immense satisfaction."

    I understnd uncountable iice cream, but I don't understand
    uncountable pie. ;-)

    Where I coe from, ice creaam is measured by volume or by weight...
    and I see ou understand thhat. When you visit a bakery, however,
    you may noice it offers "ppies, cakes, and pastries" for sale. You
    can purchae one or more suuch items as you wish or make them
    yourself a home. Either waay I see that in this example there are
    probably oe or more grownuups & at least two kids who need to be
    fed, in whch case the thriifty housewife would cut a large pie into servings (r pieces or porttions) of whatever size she deems to be
    most appropriate.:-Q


    Bye, Ardith!
    Alexander Koryagin
    english_tutor 2023

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