Is this sentence natural?

[anonymoose]

So this sentence was written by a Chinese native speaker:

你觉得英国人和美国人有哪些个不一样吗

Does it sound natural?

[lips]

The 个 in there makes it odd, at least in written language.

[Guest realmayo]

Sounds okay to me but that could be because I'm reading a book set in Sichuan where the writer seems to throw in 个s all over the place.

[Leighton]

here “些个” is one words means a little, a few. "哪些个"means which parts .so this is ok just not common to say.

[lips]

You're right, in everyday spoken language 个 (like 着, 得) is thrown in frequently and the listener/speaker wouldn't even notice.  In proper writing (unless it's repeating a conversation) or formal speech it would not be the case.

[Tianjin42]

My first impression was also that the 个 wasn't required.

[li3wei1]

I see two question-markers that shouldn't be in the same sentence: 哪些 and 吗. One makes it a 'what/which' question, and one makes it a yes/no question. Am I missing something?

[skylee]

個 is not necessary. 哪 and 嗎 are fine there.

[Geiko]

@li3wei1: I can't explain why, but it's not rare to use two question markers in one sentence, even if it seems incorrect. I've just found an example in the novel I'm reading (《奋斗》，by 石康).

[anonymoose]

I can't explain why, but it's not rare to use two question markers in one sentence

 

Because the first one is not a question marker in that sentence.

 

I guess the same is true for the sentence I posted, though I thought using 哪些 was a bit odd in this context. I would have written 什么.

[li3wei1]

So 哪些 here means 'any' or 'some'?

[nova90]

 

Because the first one is not a question marker in that sentence.

Agree with @anonymoose, 哪些 is okay in the sentence and it means "what", it is a question marker, so it will be a bit odd to add "吗“ in the end.

However, if you change the sentence to "你知道英国和美国有哪些不一样吗？", ”哪些" is not a question marker, and it is necessary to add "吗", which is just the case of the example in the novel.

[davoosh]

If this was spoken by a Sichuanhua speaker, it's possible the 嗎 was the Sichuanhua 'ma' (usually written 嘛) which is added to questions such as:

你說啥子嘛 （你說甚麼？）

[yosondysh]

I think "哪些個" is more like a regional expression of "什麼". It is used only when followed by a noun.

So it is not informal, but may not be widely used.

 

"哪些個" is not equivalent to "哪些". 

 

In Chinese, two question-markers can be used in one sentence actually. Here is a classic one: (您)有什麼問題嗎？

"Do you have any problem?" and "what is your problem?" are asked at the same time. Say no when there is no problem. If you do have some problems, you don't need to answer "yes, I have got some problems." , instead, you may directly ask for help.