Grumpy Old Man
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@pakman said in Grumpy Old Man:
Amount. It seems to me the misused word of 2026.
I'm certainly looking forward to getting grumpy about that...
To be fair - there's a fair few grammar rules I'm bad at (mostly around the whole discrete vs continuous thing - fewer/less, etc) ... not something that was really taught in the schools I went to... but when you do know a rule, or rather - the fucking meaning of a fucking word - it is irritating as shit.
"... amount of <discrete number>..." does 'feel' wrong even to me.
Like how the order of adjectives just seems 'natural'.
I would guess I've made about 3 grammatical errors in this post, but at least I never used the words "ironic" or "acronym" incorrectly.The order of adjectives is a good example of how almost no native speaker learns the ‘rules’ they just ‘know’ by what they hear around them. So the big, red, fun bus sounds correct whereas the fun, red, big bus sounds clunky.
A good reason to have at least some people who speak correct English on the box.
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