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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Except that fewer was the correct term.
Fewer is discrete, less is continuous.
(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:01, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Don't start this off again
Kroney will start speaking in Old English soon.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:03, Reply)
If you have a group of people, and some leave, there are fewer people.
If you have one person and cut their leg off, there's less person. That is how it works, no exceptions, fuck Kroney and his retard ways.
(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:05, Reply)
I'm on your side on this one, Deddo.
But this has been debated at great length on these pages several times.
(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:08, Reply)
I think I love you BraynDedd.

(I helped save b3ta! chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 11:34, Reply)
"Was" being the operative word, I'm afraid.

(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:05, Reply)
Look, I'm all for the English language adapting and evolving, that is the beauty of it.
What I'm not okay with is changing it to accommodate the stupid.
(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:08, Reply)
I didn't say I liked it, I said it was acceptable.
Using your example, it's something to do with a group of people being a crowd and so if you remove part of that crowd, there's less crowd left. Language drift, rather than lack of education.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:11, Reply)
No, that would be fine under my idea of the rules too.
Less crowd, fewer people composing said crowd. The crowd is a single thing, the people are not.
(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:13, Reply)
Yeah, I know what you mean. For the most part I agree with you.
I'm just saying that the rules aren't as rigid as that anymore.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:16, Reply)
They should be though, we make too many allowances for thickos.

(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:17, Reply)
They don't even teach correct spelling anymore.
Grammar's a lost hope.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:18, Reply)
Which is why we are sending her to Switzerland.

(I helped save b3ta! tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 Aug 2012, 10:20, Reply)

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