Excellent news
A bit less stream-of-conciousness bollox is always a good thing
Guardian shuts local blogs
The Grauniad is shutting three local news blogs and likely laying off the three reporters concerned. The blogs were aimed at Cardiff, Edinburgh and Leeds and had a reporter, or "beatblogger", for each. The sites launched in early 2010 and were meant to develop: "new models for journalism and social engagement through a mix of …
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Sunday 1st May 2011 21:14 GMT nyelvmark
less or fewer?
It's interesting that two El Reg posters thought this worth commenting on. I think you're both showing your age.
For those who don't understand, I will explain that grammar books at one time insisted on "few - fewer - fewest" for countable nouns, and "little - less - least" for uncountable ones.
Unfortunately for grammar book writers, their works are not read by native speakers of the language, who suffer from an ailment known as "native speaker intuition". For this reason, respectable modern grammars try to reflect the way the language is actually used, rather than declaring that the way the author speaks is the only natural way, as decreed by God.
Paris, because she has fewer brains.
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Monday 2nd May 2011 16:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: less or fewer?
"Unfortunately for grammar book writers, their works are not read by native speakers of the language, who suffer from an ailment known as "native speaker intuition"."
That said, if you've learned languages that actively make the distinction between "less" and "fewer", you start to miss the counterpart of "more" that works like "fewer" (but in the opposite direction, of course), and want to reintroduce whichever word was in English to serve that purpose.
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