A lot of drunks

0 "A drunkard" and "a drunk" are a little different. A drunkard is a person who habitually takes alcoholic drinks to excess. A drunk is a person who got intoxicated with alcoholic drinks. I often meet drunks in weekend's downtowns but I don't think all of them are drunkards. 02br
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0 Hi, 02br
00Perhaps I can add a little about usage. 02br
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00'A drunk' is a common term. 02br
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00'A drunkard' is much, much more uncommon, and a lot more formal. It sounds like it's from a Victorian novel. More common terms for the habitual, problem drinker are the slang 'boozer' and 'lush', and the somewhat more formal 'alcoholic' (a

0 I would say "a lot of drunks". "a lot of drunkard people" is not correct. As already explained, you could say "a lot of drunkards" but that means something different, which you most likely do not intend. 02br
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00Also, though not part of your question, I wouldn't say I met them unless I were actually introduced to them, shook hands with them, and learned their names. 

0 Ugh! Yeah, "meet" sounds really weird in this case. Thanx CJ, as usual. 02br
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0 I thank CJ and the others for the replies. 02br
00In this context, the perfect way to describe those people is that I saw them. I didn't talk to them personally. I noticed their strange behaviour. 02br
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00If they came to me and exchanged a few words, wouldn't it proper to say that I met them? 0-