Re:PhD Productivity Strategy: Do Deep Work in Less Hours
by SubiculumCode on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:40PM
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Less person, less zoo, less cigarette, fewer hatreds, fewer abuses, fewer misuses of power.
Flip flopping it around. The last three are now countable. The first three, while maybe verging on nonsensical, are grammatically correct. Less zoo, for example, might be used in the context of closing down part of a zoo. 'I have less cigarette left than Joe', also makes sense, if we are comparing cigarette lengths.
Re:PhD Productivity Strategy: Do Deep Work in Less Hours
by arximboldi on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:47PM
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Even though one can say "two people", to me it feels that "less people" or "fewer persons" are more correct than "fewer people".
On another note, see how "fewer times" and "less time" means different things (might help clarify the distinction to some.)
(Non native speaker here though.)
Fewer people. Fewer zoos. Fewer cigarettes. Less hatred. Less abuse. Less misuse of power.