"much" vs. "a lot of"

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 17 04:04:13 UTC 2014


All starred.


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 2/5/2014 08:08 PM, Randy Alexander wrote:
> >I don't drink coffee much, but when I do, I drink a lot.
> >
> >Randy
>
> How about --
>
> "I don't drink many coffees, but when I do I drink much"?
>
> (Half serious.)
> Joel
>
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