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Shouldn't it be "One Fewer Wire"? I'm not trying to troll with pedantry here, I'm genuinely interested in the reasoning that surely went on at the NYT.
by marshray 13y ago
Shouldn't it be "One Fewer Wire"?
I'm not trying to troll with pedantry here, I'm genuinely interested in the reasoning that surely went on at the NYT.
- diydsp 13y agolol, irony: http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/fewer-vs-less/ http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/fewer-vs-l... (BTW, since you were one of us who was reading carefully, how did you like this phrase: "it was almost like a stoner’s aha:" ?)
- marshray 13y agoHonestly, I couldn't read the second page of that article because I felt too badly about forming an impression of the (surely brilliant) Ms. Perry from it. The stoner quote was immortal, but I'll raise you: Nothing in her training prepared her for this kind of research. She was an astrobiologist, after all.