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Protestation (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

*fewer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yes, let's submit our language to the arbitrary opinions of some long dead english gentry idiot, why dont we. never mind how people have actually used the words for literal centuries at this point, we must uphold the bigoted idiocy of the english upper classes!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally 1984

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ha! no, it's literally 888.

The oldest use that the Oxford English Dictionary gives for less with a countable noun is a quotation from 888 by Alfred the Great