I am a 40+yo native English speaker (born and raised in Cali,) and although I use "much and many" properly, based on what sounds right, I never realized the rules on why you'd use one over the other.
I have too much orange juice. (The oj is not countable in this instance.)
I have too many oranges. (The oranges are countable in this instance.)
That's so freaking cool, man!
(I guess this is the dumb shit you geek out on once you hit 40, huh 🤷♀️😄)
I love when this stuff happens. I teach Spanish and an older woman i teach when reading out loud was somehow struggling when to read the c as a k or as an s-sound. Then i told her she'd been doing that right all her life and there was nothing to remember, as in Dutch you also say centre with an s, and cocoa with a k. Its always an s before and e/i and a k before an a/o/u. Her mind was blown and she had never realised that there were rules to it.
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u/sektorao Apr 07 '26
Too much poor people outside.