Writing "less" when you mean "fewer".

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:16, 17 replies)

it doesn't really matter

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:21, closed)

It's fewer important than some things in life, I'll give you that.

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:26, closed)

read this if you want, or not, i couldn't care fewer
itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.html
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:32, closed)

I've read this before.
The author of this piece admits after arguing his case at length, that the genitive case was in use, making translation less than exact and thus his argument invalid.

Or should that be "fewer than exact"?
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:53, closed)

i don't think there's a rule that captures it adequately, in some instances it's interchangeable
but yeah blah blah go fuck yourself or something
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:59, closed)

Ima do dat now.

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 17:20, closed)

How was it?

(SlantedScience, Thu 14 Aug 2014, 3:06, closed)

I'm not done yet.

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 14 Aug 2014, 4:17, closed)

I tilt my fedora
in your direction.
(SlantedScience, Fri 15 Aug 2014, 2:58, closed)

Your right there.
Although it's, arguably discrimination to use those what can't use proper grammar as escape goats.
( .Yeti., Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:23, closed)

I put my own upward inflection into that and then used the voice of Arthur Lowe, a very pleasing result.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:31, closed)

the less person's what does this than the more better grammer their will be

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 16:44, closed)

I feel like I have to give this comment a reply
lest you benny out again.
(SlantedScience, Fri 15 Aug 2014, 2:59, closed)

bfewer you, my child

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 18:52, closed)

Watch it, you'll get b&

(McChinaman banned, Tue 12 Aug 2014, 19:19, closed)

Bampersand?

(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 23:36, closed)

Lovely little village.
Right on the Cornish coast.
(SlantedScience, Thu 14 Aug 2014, 3:06, closed)