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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErolGarip, post: 2848879, member: 88736&quot;]No, this too is in the subject. That forum members may have many foreign members, but, many of them are linguists, some of them are experts, meaning that they know the roots&amp;etymologies of the languages/words more than people who speak languages without knowing etymologies etc. For example, there, discussion was about &quot;money&quot; as &quot;abstract noun&quot; and &quot;concrete noun&quot;. If the word &quot;money&quot; is used as &quot;abstract noun&quot;, then, &quot;money&quot; is uncountable. If it is used as &quot;concrete noun&quot;, it is countable. For example, these are what they said/claimed. I had connected that linguistic discussion there to &quot;mathematics&quot;, another abstract language which can also be concrete language. There is a relation between mathematics and language. For example, in counting, which (1/I or One) is used first is unknown, to me. So, when discussing &quot;countability&quot;, narrowed to &quot;countability of money&quot;, it should have been discussed from both sides, linguistically and mathematically and that was done there, till the mod there closed the thread.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>True, I claimed same, the standard unit and only unit in the US is the &quot;cent&quot;. However, as it is said everywhere, even on official fed gov website, it is also said that &quot;dollar&quot; too is currency &quot;unit&quot; in the US, linguists too said so. Then, there have been confusions in their minds of people. Calling dollar also as unit is a historical error. When you have more than one unit in the currency, then, of course, &quot;money&quot; is uncountable and &quot;how much money&quot; is used instead of &quot;how many money&quot;. Mathematically, it can be easily proved (and done) that there is a mathematical relation between &quot;dollar&quot; and &quot;cent&quot;, therefore, there are not two different unit names actually, there is only one unit name and it is &quot;cent&quot;. When this is not seen clearly there will be two different nouns &quot;dollar&quot; and &quot;cent&quot; and then, it also becomes a subject of deep linguistics discussion. That&#039;s why I had to start &quot;how much money or how many money&quot; from mathematical point of view in which I am a little better and linguistic point of view in which I am not so good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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