ElCanut@jlai.lu to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 months agoFinally someone said itjlai.luimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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minus-squareHaus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months ago“Fewer.” - Stannis Baratheon
minus-squarexpinchx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoSo random, I just had a YouTube recommendation of stannis correcting Arya’s grammar.
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoHe corrects everyone one the less/fewer thing. It’s kind of his thing.
minus-squarexor@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agothe less/fewer distinction was made up by a king one day… because he felt like it… but, english is a living language and words mean what people intend them to mean, not what some dead guy mote thus be foretold, henceforth…
minus-squarenaevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·edit-29 months agolanguage is made up and nobody is an authority idk how you can downvote something that is trivially true. techbros lmao, language isn’t lilke programming languages
“Fewer.” - Stannis Baratheon
So random, I just had a YouTube recommendation of stannis correcting Arya’s grammar.
He corrects everyone one the less/fewer thing. It’s kind of his thing.
the less/fewer distinction was made up by a king one day… because he felt like it…
but, english is a living language and words mean what people intend them to mean, not what some dead guy mote thus be foretold, henceforth…
language is made up and nobody is an authority
idk how you can downvote something that is trivially true. techbros lmao, language isn’t lilke programming languages