He is way too much of an egoist for that

Should we just let any old thing that slips into common usage to become the norm?

Yes.

Why not spell it “definately”? It’s very common and everyone understands it.

I don’t think that quite meets the threshold yet, since most people who do that would still agree that it’s not correct. However, it’s close, and I wouldn’t be against recording it as an alternative spelling.

It’s a bit tangential, but English spelling is awful anyway, it bears hardly any relationship to the pronunciation, and I think it’s great if it evolves to be a bit less unintuitive.

I suppose you probably do accept the existence of American spellings, even if you aren’t from there? So the only difference between us is time, and how many people use a variant. Everyone is a descriptivist, some people just also think they should force their opinions on others, which is wrong. ;)

The squiggly line that spell check draws Uber under misspelled words

You wanted a lecture, here you go:

You can use less for countable nouns, any of them. We’ve been doing it for literally centuries. In fact, it has never been used only for uncountable nouns (unlike fewer, which has generally only been used for countable nouns). Correct language is determined by what native speakers use on purpose, not what a textbook or teacher says.

At least read the Wikipedia and the dictionary if you want to keep a strong opinion about this:

However, modern linguistics has shown that idiomatic past and current usage consists of the word less with both countable nouns and uncountable nouns so that the traditional rule for the use of the word fewer stands, but not the traditional rule for the use of the word less. As Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage explains, "Less refers to quantity or amount among things that are measured and to number among things that are counted.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

Black pudding is fucking delicious, you’re missing out

English breakfast is like the only decent thing to come out of that place

Not just a change of Prime Minister like the last two times (lol), a general election of the whole lower house

Putin maybe, Kim-Jong definitely not. Just Meta’s net profit (let well alone revenue) is well over NK’s entire GDP. Even if he literally owned the entire country which he certainly does not, he wouldn’t be nearly as wealthy as Musk or Bezos.

Idk (I’m not op) but I think when people say “can I install Linux on this” everyone knows they mean gnu/Linux. Yes, if I’m picking a container base image obviously alpine is also Linux, and if we’re talking about kernels then Android is too. But if we’re talking about desktop OSes then I think it’s close enough.

Tape is not great for things you actually want to access like media

Yeah, unpopular_opinion is only for popular opinions

Not to mention projection

What does it change about their story at all?

Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn’t write “voluntary mandatory”

Haha. But I mean they’re too polite and nonconfrontational to argue about less than an ounce, but an American pint is like 100 mL smaller, it’s really noticeable

British people know how big their pints are meant to be ahaha

For a criminal charge, absolutely, and that’s as it should be. But in lay terms there is a bit of a grey area. I think you can be an overworked bartender who at some level does realise that the pour isn’t 100% up to the line (so the customer won’t be getting the full pint they ordered), but is too busy or distracted or lazy to really give a shit about making it exactly perfect. Who among us would make every burger perfect if we worked fast food? None, but it’s technically illegal in this case. But a punter who’d send a pint back for being less than an ounce under is pretty rare, nobody really cares that much.

I think the real news is that the average pub goer is spending almost three grand a year. Jfc.

Sure, technically, but I doubt it’s always on purpose.

No, just sloppy pouring mostly

You can just do

grep Error5 log.txt