---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: The Illogical Nature Of Language Very interesting! Why is "onion" a count-noun and "garlic" a non-count noun? Dede wrote: > Interesting? > > http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112777311/researcher-explores-illogical-language-020513/ ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** ETNI Blog and Poll http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************