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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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a "yumm"??

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00I saw in one of the responding posts this:02br
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00[This smiley looks to me like a "yumm" than a "stick out your tongue at something.]02br
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00I know a quoted content -- that is, one that is enclosed in quotation marks in this case -- enjoys freedom in terms of its ability to be countable and uncountable; but something like 'a "yumm"' posed a dilemma as to what it is alluding to -- a case of "yumm" or an instance of "yumm"? Can we derive that context from the above sentence? 02br
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00I haven't seen many instances of using a countable frame before something that is enclosed in quotation marks? What is the logic? So, a content in quotation marks can function as a variable noun and is able to be both countable and uncountable? I must say I have seen many cases where the definte article 'the' is used but not many or rarely where the indefinite article is used. 0-
  

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]02font 02br 02br 01font 00I know a quoted content -- that is, one that is enclosed in quotation marks in this case -- enjoys freedom in terms of its ability to be countable and uncountable; << 00Yes 00but something like 'a "yumm"' posed a dilemma as to what it is alluding to -- a case of "yumm" or an instance of "yumm"? Can we derive that context from the above sentence? 02font 00Yes.

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  • ]02font 02br 02br 01font 00I know a quoted content -- that is, one that is enclosed in quotation marks in this case -- enjoys freedom in terms of its ability to be countable and uncountable; << 00Yes 00but something like 'a "yumm"' posed a dilemma as to what it is alluding to -- a case of "yumm" or an instance of "yumm"?
  • Can we derive that context from the above sentence?
  • 02font 00Yes.
  • The writer is talking about smileys.
  • Smileys are things, so we infer from that that he is alluding to an instance of a particular kind of smiley.
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0Hi,02br
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01font00[This smiley looks to me 01b00more 02b00like a "yumm" than a "stick out your tongue at something01b00"02b00.]02font02br
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