I can give you a list of reasons

[Silverobama]

I was chatting with Sophia on her chatroom on TikTok. We've known each other for a while. Today she asked me to give her three reasons why I love her chatroom. I laughed and I said:

I can give you a list of reasons, not just three.

I wonder if my sentence is natural.

 

[Tarheel]

I was chatting with Sophia on her chatroom on TikTok. We've known each other for a while. Today she asked me to give her three reasons why I love her chatroom. I laughed and I said:

I can give you a lot of reasons, not just three.

I wonder if my sentence is natural.

It is now.

 

[Silverobama]

It is now.

Why isn't the original wrong? Doesn't "a list of" mean "a lot"?

 

[Tarheel]

Why is the original wrong? Doesn't "a list of" mean "a lot"?

I changed my mind again. I think the original is okay. (When I looked at it a second time I decided that I had misread it the first time. (Probably true.))

Sophia: Give me three reasons you like my chatroom.
Silver: I can give you a long list of reasons--not just three.

 

[emsr2d2]

Something consisting of three things can be considered a list, as far as I'm concerned so I found the original unnatural. I'd reply with something like "Three reasons? I can give you a much longer list than that!"

 

[Tarheel]

Indeed! A list could be just two things.