User talk:Oldmonk

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Hi, I think you'll probably find Help:Signatures to be useful. -- ab.er.rant 01:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Tyria

Amount for we do not know how many, but we do know there may be a few out there (like one or two, etc.). Number would be more like if we didn't know if there were any out there or not. I have seen the word amount used more in books than the word number, including education books. So, explain that when you do your "grammar". Kaisha 10:40, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

A number is countable, an amount is measureable but not countable. Example, there is an unknown number of inhabitable planets in the universe and an unknown amount of crude oil on planet earth. I am going to strongly suggest that you do not attempt to correct people's grammar Kaisha, as your sentence above is almost incomprehensible. Even by your twisted definition number fits better. Misery 10:46, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Whatever. However, how would one know if it's countable or measurable? How can you "count" more continents if you don't know how many if any more exists. Twisted, within it's self. Kaisha 10:59, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Please don't remove comments from talk pages. You would say "there are 4 continents" rather than "there are 6 million kilograms of continents", hence countable, not measurable. Misery 11:03, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually, there are billions of stars, but I wouldn't dare count the number. There may be a lot of continents or so few, we don't know how big Tyria is. That's guess work. Hence, amount. Kaisha 11:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Guess work has nothing to do with using number vs amount. You can still say unknown number or unknown amount, and both is grammatically correct. Please see my explanation on Talk:Tyria_(world)#Number_vs_amount_vs_more. Also please brush-up on your English grammar before correcting other people. --Lania Elderfire 16:43, 6 March 2010 (UTC)