Re: using "they" for popcorn in plural form

c.j.robertson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
news:1128085364.028397.285290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> it's not possible to explain why i'm wrong since i'm right: when
> i said "where they salty enough?", in my mind, i could've added
> "those popped objects in that bowl you're holding there" and as
> we all know, 'popped objects' should be referred to as they, not
> it.
>

So you would have expected, "Some were, some weren't" as an answer?
Thing is, few people would be willing to analyze the seasoning of
individual kernels of popcorn, which is why your question, as
worded, would strike a listener as odd. Your mental addition is not
the default convention. Oh, wait -- it wasn't a bowl of popcorns,
was it?

Please tell me you're not one of those who, when asked, "Did you
get a haircut", is compelled to say something like, "All of them."
That used to be a real thigh-slapper back in the old days.

--
rzed
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