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minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2年前I see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
minus-squarethecrotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2年前And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2年前Oh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2年前Yeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2年前Do you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2年前Meh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
minus-squarecurrent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2年前sorry buddy but you’re wrong the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
minus-squarecorymbia@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·2年前‘Less’ is for stuff that isn’t individually countable, like milk, or bulk rice. ‘Fewer’ is for things that one could count individually; glasses of milk, or grains of rice. It’s ok to use language accurately. Don’t be afraid.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22年前Determiner less Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.] A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.] No less than eight pints of beer.
I see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
Oh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
Yeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
Still annoying but an improvement
Do you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
There are fewer kids here.
‘Fewer’
Potato/potuber
pootuber
No. Wrong / correct.
Meh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
Kissies
sorry buddy but you’re wrong
the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
‘Less’ is for stuff that isn’t individually countable, like milk, or bulk rice. ‘Fewer’ is for things that one could count individually; glasses of milk, or grains of rice.
It’s ok to use language accurately. Don’t be afraid.
Determiner
less
Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.]
A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.] No less than eight pints of beer.