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      2 days ago

      Actual should have been “or something”.

      In the English language, “or so” is used only for numeric uncertainties (like “5 eggs or so” / “5 or so eggs”),but not for general uncertainties, like not knowing what specific type of thing an object is.

      That’s different to my 1st language (German) and I didn’t know that before learning it from other comments in this thread.