People using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'

Illecors@lemmy.cafe to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 150 points –

EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.

To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!

125

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments
[malix@derp ~]$ fewer .bashrc 
bash: fewer: command not found

:(

What would

" $ touch fewer
$ fewer .bashrc " Do?

basically nothing/same "command not found".

"fewer" doesn't have execute rights, nor does the next command use the fewer in current directory. But, taking all that into account and "doing it right...ish":

$ touch fewer
$ chmod +x fewer
$ ./fewer .bashrc
#it outputs nothing, it's an empty script