LiveCode 10 - what are your thoughts on the new features?

[Andre Garzia]

I’ll just add that a couple of pints never means exactly two pints….

Language is a very fluid thing. 

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> On 8 Sep 2021, at 23:14, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Btw. this is how Merriam-Webster thinks about couple, few and several.
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> https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/couple-few-several-use <https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/couple-few-several-use>
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>> Am 09.09.2021 um 00:08 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
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>> More than three. 
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>>>> Am 09.09.2021 um 00:04 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
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>>> Then what does a few mean? 
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>>> Bob S
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>>>> On Sep 8, 2021, at 14:49 , matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> How lucky we Germans are with having to write some words in capitals. ;) 
>>>> 
>>>> 'ein Paar' (a couple)  means 2
>>>> 'ein Paar Schuhe' means a pair of shoes
>>>> 
>>>> 'ein paar' means two or three or somewhere in the range.
>>>> 'ein paar Schuhe' means 2 or 3 or somewhere in the range shoes 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In the English lessons in school  we learned  that for example  'a couple of days' meant 2 or 3 or somewhere in that range.
>>>> And when we used  'couple' as a noun then it was meant as  2 that belong to each other or however you would call that.
>>>> e.g. married couple, bird couple. That's the way i use 'couple" now for more than 40 years. 
>>>> 
>>>> Don't tell me that i was wrong more than 40 years. ;) 
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>>>>> Am 08.09.2021 um 21:54 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> My husband said the same when I told him about this thread. "Couple" means two. I said yes, but colloquially it can mean "two or three or somewhere in that range." We almost started a longer discussion about it, but I reminded him of our 30+ years of ongoing talk about a "fact" so we both stopped.
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