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Yes, you are missing the fact that less is to be used with continuous (mass) quantities, and fewer with enumerable (count) ones. Less sugar / fewer tarts, less
by pretoriusB 14y ago
Yes, you are missing the fact that less is to be used with continuous (mass) quantities, and fewer with enumerable (count) ones.
Less sugar / fewer tarts, less gunpowder, fewer bullets, etc.
- quarterto 14y agoIt's a made-up distinction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
- charliepark 14y agoWell, sure. But all grammatical distinctions are contrived. It's still the standard way to distinguish between countable / non-countable objects.
- mkr-hn 14y agoliterally noone cares
- manicdee 14y agoThree people cared enough to argue the point right here on HN. Your claim is trivially falsified.
- mkr-hn 14y agoThat was a subtle joke about how HN is already reddit.
- mkr-hn 14y agoI noticed people are downvoting my posts instead of the posts participating in the tangent of vague pedantry. What does the vague pedantry contribute to the discussion that my calling it out (in the same useless, non-specific way) doesn't?