thomblake comments on Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 22 April 2009 02:55:46PM *  0 points [-]

I just noticed that "-1 points" is plural. Is that correct for negative numbers?

Yes, that's one of the odd things about plurality, and why I argue that it's a silly thing to encode in so much of our language. Singular means exactly one, plural means any other number. Sometimes we use the singular and "of a" for fractions, like "one quarter of a pie", but "0.25 pies" is also correct.

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