hey! he's not a troll! he's a grammar-Nazi, big difference!

Al is so awesome.

Haha, I thought that is valid and people call me a grammar nazi.

I am also can't standing people who are use incorrect grammars. Weird Al am rock!

Technically "fewer" is used for discrete measurements (ie- countable stuff) and "less" is used with continuous measurements (like wieght, volume, etc).

As far as common usage, "less" is used for both.

"Less" has less syllables, has less letters, and gets the same point across while using less paper.

And that's our grammar feweron for the day.

It's funny, I am what Lynne Truss would call a stickler, what David Foster Wallace would call a SNOOT, and what most people I meet call a grammar nerd. The “less” in “15 items or less” does not really bother me. I understand that there are necessary evils in signage. However, your use in “less syllables” & “less letters” made me shudder.>> ^jwray:

"Less" has less syllables, has less letters, and gets the same point across while using less paper.

I tend to get annoyed by some glaring grammatical errors, but any time common usage has completely diverged from the "correct" form I figure it is time to just let it go, man.

Additionally, there are some correct forms that just bother me so I intentionally use the incorrect version. For example, I would never refer to Janet Reno and John Ashcroft as "attorneys general", and would similarly refuse to reply to someone asking to speak to me on the phone with "this is he". /shudder

So I guess I'm more of a grammar Catholic-school-nun than a grammar Nazi.

I'm fairly grammar-nazi-ish, but there are a few "correct" usages that I disagree with. I like split infinitives and using "they" as a genderless singular pronoun. Also, English needs to abolish the ambiguous "or" and just use separate words for inclusive or and exclusive or.

I'm a grammar Jew, and I find it offensive that this website allows so many grammar Nazis as members.

>> ^thinker247:

I'm a grammar Jew, and I find it offensive that this website allows so many grammar Nazis as members.


Is that somebody who omits articles and prepositions to save ink?

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Ha! Start using XOR in your day to day life. Let us know how it turns out.>> ^jwray:

I'm fairly grammar-nazi-ish, but there are a few "correct" usages that I disagree with. I like split infinitives and using "they" as a genderless singular pronoun. Also, English needs to abolish the ambiguous "or" and just use separate words for inclusive or and exclusive or.