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> uses your softwares This grammatical mistake drives me nuts. I notice it is common with ESLs for some reason.
by fnord77 2y ago
> uses your softwares
This grammatical mistake drives me nuts. I notice it is common with ESLs for some reason.
- runeblaze 2y agoI am non-native speaker and can confirm that I can't remember how many times my grammar checker complains about my uses of "softwares" and "taxons"
- fnord77 2y agoez rule of thumb: Can you count it directly? If not, it doesn't get pluralized. Water, code, hardware, etc. The units of measure get pluralized, though: liters of water, pieces of hardware, pages of software Of course it is more complicated than this and it can be broken for effect ("still waters")