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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErolGarip, post: 2848914, member: 88736&quot;]To summarize &quot;un/countability of money&quot; (specifically, by narrowing countability, to the money, with an example for the US): </p><p><br /></p><p>If we write &quot;nouns&quot; in this set form: </p><p><br /></p><p>US Currency:{dollar, half, quarter, dime, nickel, cent}... </p><p><br /></p><p>then, it&#039;ll be a study of linguistics when each elements (dollar, quarter, etc) are considered as &quot;noun&quot;, as if they are independent from each others, which is not. (such a set with independent elements can be written, for ex, fruit:{apple, orange, etc}, and it can&#039;t be simplified.) </p><p><br /></p><p>However, in the money/currency, we know, there are mathematical relations between these &quot;noun&quot; elements (eg, 1dollar=2half=...=100cents). Then, our noun set becomes: </p><p><br /></p><p>US Currency:{100cent, 50cent, 25cent, 10cent, 5cent, 1cent}</p><p><br /></p><p>Can be further simplified as: </p><p><br /></p><p>... US Currency:{cent, 1, +} ... in other words, in words----&gt; USA Currency:{cent, one, summation} ..... </p><p><br /></p><p>In this expression, there is only one &quot;noun&quot; corresponding to &quot;unit&quot; name and it is &quot;cent&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, linguistically, this can be written: </p><p><br /></p><p>... US currency:{cent} ... only one element... (So, &quot;currency&quot; is countable. This was also said in his email of math prof in US indirectly if you read his email in one of previous pages, however, he didn&#039;t say anything about &quot;how much/many currency&quot; as he said he never thought about it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, this can be written: US Money:{US Currency{Cent}} ... So, again, Money set too has one element. Therefore, &quot;money&quot; too is countable actually and correct form should (have) be(en) &quot;how many money&quot; instead of &quot;how much money&quot;. Money math tells so. However, linguistically, there may be some other reasons in use of &quot;how much money&quot; that may still be correct, but, those reasons can not be related to &quot;un/countability&quot; of money which people everywhere explain so by using &quot;un/countability&quot; argument in the money, that is not correct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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