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

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

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

 AK>> What does the latter mean?

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

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

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

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


Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2023

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