For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    3 months ago

    That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

    Remember, kids, “less” is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas “fewer” is for countable things (like apples).

    It’s one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.

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      With a few odd exceptions, which is why “five items or less” is actually correct.

      Which is why English is even more fun.

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        3 months ago

        I guess it makes sense. Less than 5 can be considered variable thus not countable

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      geringer vs weniger in German, and they have nice counting rules too for “none” and “not”.

      That’s not a dog → Das ist nicht ein Hund (wrong, a dog is countable)
      That’s no dog → Das ist kein Hund (right, you can count a dog)

      Both sentences are valid in English, but only one is valid in German