>>>>>>>>Which brings the question of why the need to repeat the value, a zero-one tie is kind of impossible, right?
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>>>>>>>Good question. This is why in tennis the score is "15 All". Maybe they should adapt it to other sports :)
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>>>>>>Although, watching the Wimbledon tournament, I've heard them say "15 each". And considering the odd scoring used in Tennis, I doubt anybody wants to use tennis as a role model. Why doesn't tennis just count 0, 1, 2, 3 like normal humans instead of love, 15, 30, 40? There's probably a historical story to it, but there is also such a thing as evolution.
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>>>>>Speaking of eaches... I'm still amused by "each" as a unit of measure. When the price is "$5/ea", how do I say "give me two eaches of..."? There's such a word in German, "St[u umlaut]ck", we say "komad" (a piece), but in English I have no clue, have to manage with "two of those". I don't know what to say when the unit of measure is a unit of one.
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>>>>You simply say, "Give me two." Or, better yet, "I'd like two please." Politeness counts.
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>>>I thought it was always "Can I get ... ?" (barf). This is creeping in over here - I hear it at the sandwich shop amongst he younger cutomers.
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>>"Better" yet, "Gimme...." I hear that one quite a bit in fast food restaurants.
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>We used to complain about servers saying "You're welcome" aux Americains but that would be welcome back rather than the now adopted, Ozzy "No worries". I bought a mobile phone a few months ago and the only word of gratitude from the vendor, at the end of the xaction, after MY saying "Thank you", was that. I wanted to strangle him.

Ah, another difference. Over hear we get 'No problem'.