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minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 年前I see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
minus-squarethecrotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 年前And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 年前Oh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 年前Yeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 年前Do you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
minus-squarecurrent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 年前sorry buddy but you’re wrong the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
minus-squarecorymbia@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 年前‘Less’ is for stuff that isn’t individually countable, like milk, or bulk rice. ‘Fewer’ is for things that one could count individually; glasses of milk, or grains of rice. It’s ok to use language accurately. Don’t be afraid.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 年前Determiner less Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.] A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.] No less than eight pints of beer.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 年前Meh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
I see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
Oh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
Yeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
Still annoying but an improvement
Do you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
There are fewer kids here.
‘Fewer’
Potato/potuber
No. Wrong / correct.
sorry buddy but you’re wrong
the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
‘Less’ is for stuff that isn’t individually countable, like milk, or bulk rice. ‘Fewer’ is for things that one could count individually; glasses of milk, or grains of rice.
It’s ok to use language accurately. Don’t be afraid.
Determiner
less
Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.]
A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.] No less than eight pints of beer.
Meh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
Kissies
pootuber