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0 pointsmidasuni5y ago0 comments

Many years ago I learnt the difference between less and fewer, and now I can’t read or hear someone saying “less than” when it ‘should be’ ”fewer than”

It’s like Roko’s Basilisk. Or The Game (which I just lost), living rent free in my mind, offering nothing of value, yet immune from bleaching - indeed alcohol if anything heightens it’s power (and causing rambling asides, I think ki should go back to torturing myself with Lithuania’s Eurovision entry)

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zepearl5y ago

> now I can’t read or hear someone saying “less than” when it ‘should be’ ”fewer than”

Thank you! I love such corrections. I'll try to keep that in mind :)

> i should go back to torturing myself with Lithuania’s Eurovision entry

Hehe, I have that show running in the background - I was just thinking that the presentation of the songs got more extreme compared to previous years... . Sorry, I overlooked Lithuania.

Edit: saw a few seconds of replay of Lithuania - it seemed okay-ish (better than others).

beckingz5y ago

memetic viruses are real. Infohazards should not be taken lightly.

What has been seen cannot be unseen. However, it's worth taking all that lightly because correcting people's grammar is a suboptimal social strategy.

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