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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/4/2021 8:14 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">There are ten pies. An alien walks in and starts
eating. When he's finished, someone comments by saying "he ate
almost each pie".</div>
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<div dir="auto">What does this mean? That, lets say, initially
there were 10 pies, and now there only two whole pies left? Or
that the alien in question, ate a portion from each one of the
ten pies, and in result we now have the leftovers from each one
of the ten initial pies?</div>
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<p>No native English speaker would say that. If there were only two
out of ten pies less, a native English speaker would say <i>He
ate most of the pies</i> or <i>He at almost all of the pies.</i>
If he were trying to express the latter idea, that the majority of
each pie was eaten, leaving ten separate leftovers, the native
English speaker wouldn't say it this way at all. There's no simple
expression for this; you'd have to say something like <i>He ate
most of each of the pies,</i> and even then your listener would
probably ask for clarification because the concept is so odd that
your meaning would still be in question.<br>
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