No, because there's no reference to individual nothings, only to nothing in general.Paul Graupp wrote:How About Gene Watson's friend of whom he sang:
But when we were down to nothing
Nothing sure looked good on you.
Those would not work as plurals, would they ??...
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For what purpose?Roger Crawford wrote:Shouldn't we start a new topic about something?
When nothing is the subject, that also makes it something.
I'm aware you already knew that, Roger.
... just wanted to make it squeaky clean clear.
BTW:
When people say, "nothing works around here".
Do they mean nothing is actually busy at work; or do they mean something is procrastinating?
Just how important is this?
Well, no one knows the "meaning of life".
This could be it, if we find the answer.
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It's the ambiguity of the expression "nothing" that causes the confusion. In the above example it can mean, "There is no thing that works around here" or "The absence of anything works around here" or "Everything does not work around here."Rick Collins wrote:...When people say, "nothing works around here".
Do they mean nothing is actually busy at work; or do they mean something is procrastinating?...
When in doubt, try translating the phrase into a different language, and you will usually find that there are multiple translations, dependant upon the point you want to make.
While the word "nothing" is something, in that it's a word with a meaning, its meaning is the absence of anything. In that sense, everyone has an abundence of nothing, since there is no limit to the amount of nothing in any amount. It's the old mathematical expression which says that anything divided by zero is infinity... 2/0 5/0 10000/0.. they're all infinity since the logic is that you can have any number of nothings and they will all represent the same thing, which is zero.Roger Crawford wrote:If nothing is something, then I've got plenty of it!
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OK !! Let's try this one more time...
Going...Going...GONE!!
Going...Going...GONE!!
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you'd think that with 68 pages about nothing that we'd be first on Google, but we're not even on the first page!
If something I wrote can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, I meant the other one.
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