3 ms·
"A couple" can mean "a few". Like "give me a couple minutes" doesn't mean exactly 2. Even "two seconds" doesn't actually mean 2 seconds.
by viraptor 3y ago
"A couple" can mean "a few". Like "give me a couple minutes" doesn't mean exactly 2. Even "two seconds" doesn't actually mean 2 seconds.
- IshKebab 3y agoA couple does mean 2, not "a few". It's just that people are often very inexact about times and numbers. So yeah it's silly to argue that "a couple of years ago" is wrong because it was actually 4 because the context clearly implied a degree of approximateness.
- viraptor 3y agoInflammable means flammable. Couple means few. You can disagree with descriptivism, but you've lost the moment the issue was noticed if enough people keep doing it.