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From: | Bruce Korb |
Subject: | Re: GNU sed maintainers, please document less or fewer |
Date: | Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:51:07 -0700 |
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On 10/14/13 14:24, John Cowan wrote:
Bruce Korb scripsit:If you put several fewer gallons of water into a tub, then you have less water in the tub. "fewer" is for stuff you can count, "less" for stuff you don't count. "backslashes" and "gallons" are countable.OT, but this is not the whole truth but an oversimplification.
With a simplified rule, you can wind up with fewer mistakes and less overall grating on one's nerves. ;) But, yes, I ought to have added a "more or less" caveat.
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