CarloSsS
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Is there any way one could use, whatever the register, the words "girl" and "man" uncountably in a sentence like this?
"I could be girl, unless you want to be man."
After all, in certain cases, you can use countable nouns without articles (or any other determiner, for that matter). As far as I recall, you can use this when talking about ideas (as Plato defined them in Platonic theory of ideas), not about the usual countable nouns as we all know them from our everyday lives. What do you think, is it this case? Is it even true that you can use countables like that?
"I could be girl, unless you want to be man."
After all, in certain cases, you can use countable nouns without articles (or any other determiner, for that matter). As far as I recall, you can use this when talking about ideas (as Plato defined them in Platonic theory of ideas), not about the usual countable nouns as we all know them from our everyday lives. What do you think, is it this case? Is it even true that you can use countables like that?