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

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Comment author: PetjaY 17 October 2016 07:58:16PM 0 points [-]

There´s a difference there though. Less & fewer mean same thing, so writer using those abnormally isn´t really an error, it´s just something people don´t usually do. They´re , there, their mean different things so correcting those really makes the world better.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 October 2016 08:33:02AM *  1 point [-]

The rule as usually understood is that fewer relates to discrete quantities, fewer apples, and less to continuous quantities, less milk. It's possibly rather artificial, and noticeably lacking a counterpart in "more".