what is the problem?

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I believe that your analysis was accurate.





David

It's an egg pre-fertilization. Females have eggs, men have sperm.

The the sperm enters the egg, and it becomes an embyro, then a fetus.

thank you so much!

thank you so much for the explanation!

"...a baby who's gonna be born...what I wanna ask …"

If you want to have good English, don't use 'wanna' and 'gonna'.

gonna is fine if you're speaking casually, as in this thread.

as a native english speaker I can attest to that.

Sure it wasn't EEG?

An E E G is a medical procedure.

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test used to detect abnormalities related to electrical activity of the brain. This procedure tracks and records brain wave patterns. Small metal discs with thin wires (electrodes) are placed on the scalp, and then send signals to a computer to record the results.

Egg is the generic word for eggs considered as food - I like egg and tomato sandwiches, I don't eat food containing egg, there is egg on my shirt, during World War 2 we ate powdered dried egg. Also possibly the person who wrote the notice was not a native English speaker.

There are generic words for some types of food - e.g. egg, meat, fish, fruit, game, poultry, which are non-countable.

In North American usage, in many, although not all, of the examples Contrex has given, the native speaker would say eggs. "I like eggs for breakfast>" "I don't eat food containing eggs." "My mother told me that in the Army in World War Two, they only got powdered eggs." Of course, here we would say "I've gotten egg on my shirt." "I like egg and tomato sandwiches." This is a stylistic difference, and neither usage can be said to be wrong.

This was at a hospital for obstetrics and gynecology.

Why would they be talking about eggs as a food?

In addition, I can't see why they would be paying particular attention to EEG's there.

Indeed.

As given by the OP, they were talking about 'egg'. "I like egg" (with no 's') can only correctly refer to the contents of birds eggs, usually as food, if written by a native speaker, unless it is some kind of locally used initialism or abbreviation for something.

OK, I try not to use those words. thank you.

It was surely EGG.

Thank you for the explanation.

Distinction between countable words and non-countable words is so difficult for Japanese speaker.
Because in our language, we don't have that.

I try my best, anyway.

What hasn't been mentioned so far somehow is the ironic humor associated with that sign in front of a hospital ward specializing in Obstetrics. There seems to be a deliberate intent to blur the distinction between egg as a food and the ova from a human female.

When you understand such humor subtleties, it is mildly funny. Admittedly western (American and English) humor is sort of lost where there's someone who might struggle with the language, not to mention the cultural differences in humor.

There is a certain looseness of the author of the sign where they chose to use the Egg but are using it a collective noun. That would be using poetic license. Often with humor, it can stray out of the boundary of 'proper' grammar.

Clearly they didn't mean EEG (nor was it typed as EEG), the diagnostic test electro-encephalogram, which would be EEG not EGG.

Is it true that the more advanced machines
sent current back along the electrodes to re-configure the brain ?

Sure it's been talked about....twice by me.

I told the OP the meaning of the word egg in this context, and I later asked why they would have a slogan about EEG machines at a maternity hopital, and talking about eggs as food.

It's been clear to me from the start they were being clever saying they love eggs, because fertilized eggs are where babies come from.