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minus-squareUltraMagnus0001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·1 year agoI did notice Lemmy has s lot more comments and votes recently
minus-squareCustoslibera@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 year agoLemmy really has increased in traffic over the time I’ve been here. For all intents and purposes it’s the exact same experience as the other place for me.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoI see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
minus-squarethecrotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoAnd fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
minus-squarethecrotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoStill annoying but an improvement
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoOh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
minus-squareNotAtWork@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoDo you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoMeh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
minus-squarecurrent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agosorry buddy but you’re wrong the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
minus-squarecorymbia@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year ago‘Less’ is for stuff that isn’t individually countable, like milk, or bulk rice. ‘Fewer’ is for things that one could count individually; glasses of milk, or grains of rice. It’s ok to use language accurately. Don’t be afraid.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoDeterminer less Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.] A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.] No less than eight pints of beer.
I did notice Lemmy has s lot more comments and votes recently
Lemmy really has increased in traffic over the time I’ve been here.
For all intents and purposes it’s the exact same experience as the other place for me.
I see less repeated jokes as top level comments here.
And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line
Yeah, we recreate entire Monty Python sketches and movies one comment at a time instead.
Still annoying but an improvement
Oh they are here, they are just in a different instance.
Do you want Simpsons quotes to make you cry?
There are fewer kids here.
‘Fewer’
Potato/potuber
No. Wrong / correct.
Meh, whatever you say oh arbiter of casual conversation.
Kissies
sorry buddy but you’re wrong
the notion of “correct” and “incorrect” made up language is silly
‘Less’ is for stuff that isn’t individually countable, like milk, or bulk rice. ‘Fewer’ is for things that one could count individually; glasses of milk, or grains of rice.
It’s ok to use language accurately. Don’t be afraid.
Determiner
less
Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.]
A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.] No less than eight pints of beer.