we all love a list/singular noun instead of plural noun

[navi tasan]

Can one use #1 and #2 instead of #3 and #4 respectively?

1) I love a list.
2) We all love a list.

3) I love lists.
4) We all love lists.

I don't know why I don't find the first two very natural, but I find these two fine:

5) I love a good detective movie.
6) He loves a fair fight.

 

[Rover_KE]

2 and 4 aren't natural. You can't speak for everyone else in the world.

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you very much, Rover KE,

I might be talking about a small group of people (my family, me and my friends, me and my classmates, etc.)

 

[5jj]

2 and 4 aren't natural. You can't speak for everyone else in the world.

I disagree with Rover for once. We can't speak for everyone else in the world, but many of us do.

 

[PeterCW]

2 and 4 aren't natural. You can't speak for everyone else in the world.

"All" can be any previously defined group.

 

[jutfrank]

Numbers 1 and 2 are fine, and certainly natural to many speakers.

 

[Skrej]

We'd normally expect some kind of modifier before the noun in #1 and #2 (compare to #5-#6), but I agree they're fine. Maybe that's what bothers you about them.

"I love a good X" is so common it's almost a set phrase, so I expect to hear it in #1 and #2, but the omission doesn't make them wrong or unnatural.

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you all very much,

Skrej, you're absolutely right! I couldn't figure out why they bothered me. I thought the word 'list' was the problem, but actually it was the absence of a modifier.