Yvain comments on What Is Signaling, Really? - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 July 2012 12:07:20AM 1 point [-]

why did about 50% of readers get a mental flinch and an overpowering urge to correct me when I used “less” instead of “fewer” in the sentence above?

I didn't, and I suspect the percentage of readers who did is much smaller.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 July 2012 12:08:49AM *  58 points [-]

Upvote this comment if you didn't notice, or weren't bothered by, the use of “less” instead of “fewer”.

Comment author: Yvain 12 July 2012 10:58:59PM *  5 points [-]

I stand corrected; apparently about 20% would have been more accurate.

But to corroborate Alicorn's story, though, I kept catching myself trying to remove that error during the proofreading stage before I remembered what I was doing.