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“Fewer meetings.” Not “less.”
by block_dagger 1y ago
“Fewer meetings.” Not “less.”
- ttruett 1y agoThis is a good nudge to choose the grammatically correct option, thank you. I originally had "less meetings" before an LLM corrected me into using "fewer meetings". Then when talking about Orgtools to a couple people I heard them say "less meetings" and switched back thinking that sounds slightly more natural (but incorrect).
- Sateeshm 1y agoThe way I think of it is "few" if they can be counted, otherwise, "less"
- d1sxeyes 1y agoThat's not really true, at least, outside of prescriptivist linguistics. > Less has been used to modify plural nouns since the days of King Alfred https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less More reading on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less