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Some languages apparently don't have [countable nouns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_noun). >Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier (see Chinese classifier) to add numerals and other quantifiers. Could be that the artist speaks one of those. EDIT: And not all languages have the [definite/indefinite article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_%28grammar%29) distinction in English. I've seen some Russian-language speakers in particular have trouble with that. EDIT2: It sounds like the artist was born in Russia prior to emigrating to the US, so I'd guess that he might speak Russian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_(cartoonist) >Shen (also known as Shenanigansen) is the pen name of cartoonist Andrew Tsyaston, the creator of the comic series *Owlturd*, *Shen Comix*, and *Bluechair*, and the co-creator of *Live with Yourself!*. >Born: Andrew Tsyaston February 1, 1992 (age 34) >Shen emigrated from Europe to the United States with his family in 1999.[3][4] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Shen > Shen (aka Shenanigansen / Andrew Tsyaston) is an Russian-born American webcomic creator. So he's probably been speaking English for a long time, though he would probably have been speaking Russian until he was seven. EDIT3: I'm not gonna try to track down the exact date of publication, but the earliest copy Tineye has seen is from 2020, so I doubt that it's a really old comic from when he was a lot younger. EDIT4: It's a modified version of the original comic, so the text isn't from the original artist: https://x.com/shenanigansen/status/1280119418496921600 https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a85692c7-62e0-4b22-a733-62ba4a02b54b.jpeg