off topic jargon

[geary at acm.org]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Fred Satterwhite <bfs19 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> The most irritating one for me is using "less" instead of "fewer" when 
> referring to quantities of individual items- for example, "I have less 
> Duos than most people on this list" instead of "I have fewer Duos than 
> most people on this list."

I dunno, maybe some people here have so many Duos that they think of
them as uncountable quantities.

Mark Geary