Lewin, at 21:21 on May 06 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

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

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

Just keep taking those little yellow pills Lew.  :)

Regards, Bill

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