• freagle@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I choose to believe you are being downvoted for incorrectly choosing between “less” and “fewer”.

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      1 month ago

      I don’t care about downvotes.what is the difference between using less and fewer?

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        1 month ago

        Fewer is for countable nouns, like 4 apples is fewer than 10 apples.

        Less is for uncountable nouns, like Lake Placid has less water than Lake Superior.

        It can be confusing because you could find a way to express the same idea using either, like Lake Placid has fewer drops of water, or fewer liters of water than Lake Superior, be sure “drops” and “liters” are discrete countable nouns. But water as a noun covers any amount. Similarly less snow versus fewer inches of snow, or less money versus fewer dollars.

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          1 month ago

          Downvoting for grammatical errors is weird but anyway not a big deal. I would not downvote people who do the same errors in my mother tongue

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            1 month ago

            Sorry. I was making a little joke. I genuinely believe people were down voting you because they don’t believe that the American military is a terrorist organization. But since I agree with you, I was trying to come up with another explanation.

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      1 month ago

      I’m torn between up voting for the sentiment and down voting for the misspelled “you’re”.

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      1 month ago

      Supporting death: fine

      Minor grammatical mistake: that’s a line you can’t cross

      That’s why I love this place

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        1 month ago

        We support the end of the killing. The end of the killing requires stopping the killers. Sometimes those killers are so insistent in their killing that they need to be killed to stop the killing. We desire the end of war, but the enemy desires war. Thus, ending war requires war, because the enemy will bring it to us.