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People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?

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(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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Possibly over pedantic but ...
...you don't mean "try and write this down" you mean "try to ....."

Sorry.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 9:20, 1 reply)
I've noticed that most people on this board who complain about language use...
...seem to have bugbears about things that are perfectly acceptable in dialectic English. Standard English has its place in writing but i'm not sure it's so important in everyday use.
(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 9:30, closed)

[whisper]You mean "dialect" not "dialectic" [/whisper]
(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 9:32, closed)

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