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Because it's one line and because its implications are that important: For quantities you can count (windows, money, people...), the word is "fewer." For quant
by brianlash 15y ago
Because it's one line and because its implications are that important:
For quantities you can count (windows, money, people...), the word is "fewer." For quantities you can't, the word is "less"
The pledge should read: No first use of software patents against companies with fewer than 25 people.
- blahedo 15y agoNo. Your formulation is not incorrect, but pg's is correct as it stands. The word "less" has been used in a range of English dialects for both countable and measurable things, for more than a thousand years. See e.g. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.h... for some excellent discussion on this issue, and actual corpus data to back it up.