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footfootfoot 10-20-2018 10:31 PM

Children of a fewer god - my new rebellion
 
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.

xoxoxoBruce 10-20-2018 10:46 PM

The purpose of language, written or spoken, is to make the recipient understand your message.
Pedantry is silly when you know exactly what they mean.
Much ado about nothing. :p:

sexobon 10-20-2018 10:56 PM

Go with the flow and you'll have one thing fewer to worry about.

(oh noes, it's contagious)

tw 10-21-2018 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 1017143)
One of my nails on the blackboard things is when people ...

Frustrating is when people ...

Irritating is when people ...

Disheartening is when people ...

Aggravating is when people ...

Prophetic is when people ...

Harrassing is when people ...

Onerous is when people ...

Unpleasant is when people ....

Disconcerting is when people ...

Painful is when people ....

Why blame the poor blackboard?

Griff 10-21-2018 08:08 AM

Shots fired!

Clodfobble 10-21-2018 08:20 AM

I would argue it's not the blackboard, it's the nails.

sexobon 10-21-2018 08:26 AM

...maybe if there were less of them.

(aha)

Gravdigr 10-21-2018 01:27 PM

Frustrating, irritating, disheartening, aggravating, harassing, onerous, unpleasant, disconcerting, painful is when TW...

sexobon 10-21-2018 02:04 PM

...is right and Gravdigr is wrong. Forgot about Henry Ford (II) didn'tja?

xoxoxoBruce 10-21-2018 03:47 PM

FoMoCo would like to. :rolleyes:

footfootfoot 10-21-2018 08:07 PM

Yeah I have a thesaurus but it’s terrible. Not only that it’s also terrible.

xoxoxoBruce 10-21-2018 09:27 PM

Thesaurus, isn't that the kind of Dinosaur Jesus rode?

monster 10-21-2018 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 1017143)
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.

tw 10-22-2018 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 1017196)
Yeah I have a thesaurus but it’s terrible. Not only that it’s also terrible.

Damn thesaurus. It could not even come up with another word for 'terrible'.

Let's burn the books. Then only delightful will exist. Antonyms are more pleasant.

Save the world. We need more English Nazis.

footfootfoot 10-22-2018 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 1017201)
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.

Those are the spirit! Less words will have fewer impact. This is what it’s all about.


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