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minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·10 months agoI see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
minus-squarethecrotchlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·10 months agoAnd fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoOh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoYeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoDo you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
minus-squareTankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoThere are fewer kids here.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoMeh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
minus-squarecurrent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agosorry buddy but you’re wrong the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
minus-squarecorymbia@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·10 months ago‘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-210 months agoDeterminer 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.