Wow, who actually uses couple as (2) for counting money or things?
I got a couple of quarters =/= 0.50$
Pretty sure you only use couple = 2 on living things or there's a count modifier before it
E.G(Living thing examples): I know a COUPLE who model, I guessed your favorite COUPLE
E.G(Modifier examples): I see TWO COUPLES, I didn't see ANY COUPLES in church today
else, its treated as "several"
Hey I got a COUPLE of tickets here =/= TWO tickets
A COUPLE years ago =/= TWO years
I have a COUPLE of questions. =/= TWO questions
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hmm
It does say under idioms that it can refer to more than two, but who uses idioms anyway
Also for every one of your examples at the end, if someone said any of those to me, I'd assume they meant two. Because if they meant more than two, they'd have said several. Which is why we have both words: couple and several (also, few). -_-
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Idioms aren't even a real thing
^OK, I was going to leave it at that and just end on a troll note, but my inner grammar nazi got the better of me. A couple certainly can mean >2. I don't think it should, but that's the way it's used in common conversation. However, I've never heard "a couple" refer to "eight". It usually means 2-4, maybe 5. It's just not proper usage. Although I'm still not sure why suddenly everyone is so interested in the proper usage of the word 'couple'. I made a 3 sentence reply and suddenly I get a paragraph in response, to something that I was half-jokingly arguing. Well whatever floats your boat, buddy.
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I'm just trying to prove all my points logically that your logic is flawed properly, that's why you get a full paragraph for it.
If you still want to connect english to math, then:
"COUPLE" = "SEVERAL"
"SEVERAL" = > 2
Quarters*n > 2 = > 0.50$.
By these logic, your post of:
couple = 2.
2 quarters = $0.50
$0.50 =/= $2
Is wrong.
I guess you use formal language everytime, everyday, everyhour, everyminute, and everysecond you converse.
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again, I didn't realize I was being graded. I formally change the first line of my reply to:
couple = 2-5
The conclusion still follows. Didn't see the point in over-specifying since I didn't really intend this to be a heated debate. But I guess that'll teach me. Also Several =>2 is false. 10,000 is not several, it is many, so your argument is false.
No, I don't use formal language all the time. And since we're on the subject of bad logic, nice strawman argument. I hope you don't still feel genuinely sad.
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While "a couple" might be understood to not be precisely two, it is by no means equivalent to "several". I am quite confident that most people when asked would order these imprecise phrases thusly:
Several > a Few > a Couple
I also agree with lncog that regardless of whether "a couple" is stretched to mean more than two or not, it would never be understood to refer to eight.
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you know, i just remembered a video about star where he said that he found a key being sold by 0.07$ at the mann co store, but that was like months ago
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Well, I lost half a bitcoin because one of the mining pool's founder took the bitcoins and ran. You know how much that's worth today? (It's the only BTC I had, by the way. If only I'd known the monster they'd turn into.)
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T_T
Idiot.
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