In a message dated 4/23/2009 5:50:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, palma@xxxxxxxx writes: (Ryle, btw, used the expression in his rather harsh treatment of hi contemporary Heidegger) ---- But now I'm confused. The first (opus unus, as I say) by Mr. Ryle was his review of "Sein und Zeit" (The Undrecurrents and tides of the Seine River, -- Royal Geographical Society), a book by Heidegger. How could he be a shit in high heels. Oddly, I don't use 'shit' as countable. It's to me, the paradigm case of a mass noun. "There's loads of shit for you to digest before breakfast", the tutor said to the tutee as he handed the volume of Wollaston. 'A shit' I may use, implicaturally, to refer to the little drops by my cat. Each of them. Cheers, JL **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html