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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Lewin Edwards
date: 1996-05-06 21:21:46
subject: The Dole

MH>> govt 'make work' schemes, even less find real jobs.
BG>                                    ^^^^
BG> Fewer.  Less is quite funny, but grammatically incorrect.  :)

Hnnnnmmmmnmnm. If we want to stretch a point to the furthest, if we
measured population in mole, it would be quite acceptable to say "the
amount of people in the world is ". Therefore saying
"less people" might be acceptable. After all, we say "less
water" or "less bullshit", etc, and any physical object is
no more divisible than a human; technically, an amount of water is
quantized, not continuous . You can't have 156« water molecules, the «
would be... er... umm... assuming protium and 16O.. that would be 4«
protons, 4« electrons, and assuming that we believe in quantum theory... oh
hell, anyway - the « wouldn't be water.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0419320415 * 0412809805 * 0414927056
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