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Old 10-21-2018, 10:25 PM   #13
monster
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot View Post
One of my nails on the blackboard things is when people use the word ‘less’ with countable nouns instead of ‘fewer’.

As in, “there’s less people...”. Since people around here think it’s also ok to say shit like, ‘on accident’, or ‘over top of’ I’ve decided that from now on I’m going to start using fewer for non countable nouns as a way of leveling the playing field.

As in, “that small glass holds fewer liquid than the big one”

Fuck em.
I want to know if this is going to effect me in anyway? Especially as I don't know where my theosaurus is at, so I will have less words to impact you with.
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