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"softwares" makes as much sense as "traffics" or "emails"; i.e. none. And now you've learned something more.
Wait emails isn't grammatically correct? So, if you got an email, you could say "this email is cool", but if you had multiple you wouldn't say "these emails are cool"? It'd be "these email are cool"? That sounds wrong
I was guessing that the intended usage would be "email messages". And I would compare it to (snail) mail. You can get a lot of letters, but it is still a lot of mail.
I think the difference in day to day usage of the words is different. Theoretically I only ever refer to "emails" with people when I'm talking about work emails that are often in chains grouped together with the same subject. Sort of "did you see all of those emails about the forklift repair?"
Whereas with physical mail it's always one offs, people wouldn't have groups of mail belonging to the same subject due to the nature of snail mail, they'd have all info for the person in one piece of mail and if there's back and forth it would just become "letters" or just papers/files at that point since the mail would already be opened and thrown away or filed away and you wouldn't consider it mail anymore.
Thanks! I've used emails as a plural of email for a long time, referring to the messages. Not a native speaker, maybe it's something Dutch people do with some loanwords. Never softwares or the (more recent) codes, though.
Nah, people do say "emails" all the time and it's perfectly fine.
Eg. "But her emails!"
Heh, thanks. I did just look up what people on StackExchange thought about it, and in short: both are correct, although the word originated as a mass noun (uncountable).