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Conflating "few" and "a few" or "little" and "a little" is a common Indian English-ism, I find. /Indian
by sid0 16y ago
Conflating "few" and "a few" or "little" and "a little" is a common Indian English-ism, I find.
/Indian
- kranner 16y agoCorrect, articles are dropped and sometimes arbitrarily added; at least the 'the' is. I wouldn't mind normally, but in the case of 'few' vs 'a few' it can be genuinely confusing because there is a drastic change of meaning.