Feels like there’s a whole more downvoting on Lemmy instances then reddit itself. Anyone else feel like that?
If You don’t agree; please downvote my comment/post. 😁
Thanks!
Feels like there’s a whole more downvoting on Lemmy instances then reddit itself. Anyone else feel like that?
If You don’t agree; please downvote my comment/post. 😁
Thanks!
Downvoting has far less meaning on lemmy so there are far less downvotes.
Fewer
“Fewer” is correct, but it’s wrong to correct “less” to “fewer”. Why? Because language isn’t dictated by an authority, it is negotiated through billions of interactions every day.
People say “less” to refer to countable objects and nobody is confused by it, so it is valid communication. Just because you had some English teacher mark you down for it in middle school doesn’t mean it’s wrong. You were just miseducated.
Even if we’re talking about strict technical semantics, 5 is less than 7. The < symbol is not called the “fewer than” symbol. “Less” can encompass the concept of “fewer”, so either is fine.
See: “10 items or less”
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The “less than” symbol is not limited to whole numbers.
Does it change its name to “fewer than” when it is used for whole numbers?
That’s rhetorical, we all know it doesn’t.
What I don’t understand is how you thought that that observation was meaningful in any way. I already said the concept of “less” encompasses “fewer”, so the “less than” symbol being used where “fewer” is also appropriate completely agrees with that idea, doesn’t it?
Does it turn into a cucumber if you compare a whole number to an irrational number?
“Let me answer that question with an entirely nonsensical question and also downvote you like a petulant child.”
Useless. I can’t have a conversation with this.
Yeah, that’s usually what happens when you’re wrong, bucko.