MK 286: The Great Lasagna Paradox

If you stack one lasagne on top of another lasagne, is that still only one lasagne? There’s no minimum requirement for number of layers in a lasagne, but the intuitive amount seems to be three and conversely, there’s no maximum amount of layers because 100-layer lasagne still qualifies as lasagne. So if you took roughly 33 minimally layered lasagnes out of the oven and stack them on top of themselves, that would still constitute a single lasagne. However we need to discuss the inherent singularization of the English language version of the A lasagne versus the Italian lasagne because in Italian, the E at the end of the word signifies pluralization. Being the term A lasagne is fully de-contextualized in the Italian language and thus the dishes’ birth place in Italian is simply, did not have a lasagne. Because the term lasagne is a plural mass number referring to the noodles themselves, signifying that some lasagne exists, rendering the count down formation in English absolutely useless. That said, the dishes national origin make it a whole new grammatical confines the state, which all I can say is, we did a scene today. Lasagne is good though.

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