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Date: 2006-04-13 11:28 pm (UTC)Yes, if we're playing Settlers of Catan, all sorts of odd things become count nouns ("I'll trade you five waters for a sheep, 2 stone, and a flying monkey").
And there are various poetic constructions ("the waters of the Euphrates", "the technologies of the Incas") that I don't actually object to -- but even so these are still not really full-fledged count-noun uses (how many waters does the Euphrates have?).