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#3275705 27-Aug-2024 10:26

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Why do we have different words when the quantity is smaller, i.e. 'less' vs 'fewer', but not when the quantity is larger, i.e. 'more'?

Wait, isn't "morer" a word?

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#3275711 27-Aug-2024 10:45

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floydbloke:

Why do we have different words when the quantity is smaller, i.e. 'less' vs 'fewer', but not when the quantity is larger, i.e. 'more'?

Wait, isn't "morer" a word?

If it is, it’s not as gooder as ‘morest’.

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#3275716 27-Aug-2024 11:26

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A former schoolteacher mate of mine hates it when people misuse 'less than' and 'fewer than'. I'm a raging pedant but that's one thing I don't understand and can never remember. Apparently I always get it wrong. I'd like to do it on purpose just to wind him up but I don't know enough to even do that.

It's all about tangible amounts, e.g.

"You're getting a bit of a belly there, you should drink less beer." vs

"After the celebration there were fewer bottles left in the crate."

Its not a good example as beer describes both a liquid, as well as an item that you can have one of, since it is accepted to say you will go and have "a beer" with mates. So in normal use you can say that you should have 'less beers' and still make sense.

Cars vs traffic is a better example. Less traffic, fewer cars. Cant have a traffic.

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#3275723 27-Aug-2024 12:04

floydbloke:

Surely he meant rice grains? 😜

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#3275724 27-Aug-2024 12:17

eracode:

A former schoolteacher mate of mine hates it when people misuse 'less than' and 'fewer than'. I'm a raging pedant but that's one thing I don't understand and can never remember. Apparently I always get it wrong. I'd like to do it on purpose just to wind him up but I don't know enough to even do that.

If you can count them, use fewer.

Less beer but fewer bottles.

It can be fun teasing pedants. I have an acquaintance who corrects people when they say 'soccer' - no, it's football. I hardly ever say soccer except when I see that person when I say it all the time :-)

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#3275726 27-Aug-2024 12:26

Now you've given me something for the small questions thread!

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#3275733 27-Aug-2024 12:58

eracode:
A former schoolteacher mate of mine hates it when people misuse 'less than' and 'fewer than'. I'm a raging pedant but that's one thing I don't understand and can never remember. Apparently I always get it wrong. I'd like to do it on purpose just to wind him up but I don't know enough to even do that.

Oh, that's easy, just turn it on its head. Whenever you get to a point in a conversation where you'd use one of those two, stop, pull out your phone, spend ages googling it while they wait for the conversation to continue, then use the appropriate term and continue.

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#3275800 27-Aug-2024 15:08

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It can be fun teasing pedants. I have an acquaintance who corrects people when they say 'soccer' - no, it's football. I hardly ever say soccer except when I see that person when I say it all the time :-)

Yes. Years ago a mate and I were on a long-distance train going through Arizona. There was an older woman passenger earwigging on our conversation - we know Americans can be somewhat fascinated by the Kiwi accent because it sticks out like dogs’ proverbials.

At one point my mate asked me what is the next stop. I couldn’t resist it, looked at the map and deliberately mispronounced it as ‘Tuck-son’. We hadn’t been talking to her but she couldn’t resist it either and said ‘It’s ‘Too-son’. I smiled and said Yeah, I know.

She laughed when she realised I was winding her up and then we had a good old chat.

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#3275801 27-Aug-2024 15:23

Whoa. This thread is going on since 2016. And the top discussions from that year are still very active:

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#3275802 27-Aug-2024 15:24

freitasm:

Whoa. This thread is going on since 2016. And the top discussions from that year are still very active:

I see the not unescaping HTML extends to your reports page as well.

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#3275803 27-Aug-2024 15:24

Should of, could of, would of.

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#3275805 27-Aug-2024 15:28

That Trump thread is wrongly categorized - should be part of this Annoys thread.

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#3275807 27-Aug-2024 15:28

richms:

freitasm:

Whoa. This thread is going on since 2016. And the top discussions from that year are still very active:

I see the not unescaping HTML extends to your reports page as well.

Can't be bothered doing it for Power BI. Or email.