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We should count in base four
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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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If someone asks me for "a few" I'll give them three or four. If someone asks for "multiple" I'll give them a handful and ask if that's enough.
I don't know where in the world this theory is coming from, but here, two would be "a couple" and three+ would be "a few." Not that "a pair" (never just pair) and multiple aren't used in other contexts, but you wouldn't use pair and multiple in the same context. A pair is specific, multiple is an estimate.
Maybe it's just me: had to double back on that literal use of "where in the world".
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It's just me thinking of what I ordered people near me would do. But I'm not a native English speaker so my feel for the language might be wrong; I'm from Sweden (and my mother tongue is Swedish).