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minus-squareCustoslibera@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoLemmy really has increased in traffic over the time I’ve been here. For all intents and purposes it’s the exact same experience as the other place for me.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
minus-squarecurrent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·10 months agosorry buddy but you’re wrong the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
minus-squarecorymbia@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·10 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-up0·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.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoMeh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
minus-squarethecrotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoAnd fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoYeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
Lemmy really has increased in traffic over the time I’ve been here.
For all intents and purposes it’s the exact same experience as the other place for me.
I see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
‘Fewer’
Potato/potuber
No. Wrong / correct.
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.
Meh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
Kissies
And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
Yeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.