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by RobotCaleb 478 days ago
I like to share this because not everybody is aware. If you can count it, it's fewer. Fewer employees, but less salt.
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This is a fun one I picked up while living in Sweden. I didn’t realise we differentiated like this in English until I was taught that many is många if you can count it or mycket if you can’t, then a Swedish friend pointing out to me that they learn English the same way

I’ve eaten too many apples. I’ve got too much time to kill.

Less & fewer work the same. Language is fun!

That was great, thank you for sharing that.