On accident

I kind of can’t take people seriously when they say On accident, I don’t know or care if its more or less grammatical, it sounds like a child sputtering in my mind. It should be By accident or accidentally

Tummy

Any adult has zero business saying this lol

  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    4 months ago

    They’re not interchangeable. ‘Fewer’ is for countable nouns and ‘less’ is for aggregate nouns, just like ‘how many’ and ‘how much’.

    E.g:

    Aggregate:

    “How much sand? Less sand.”

    Countable:

    “How many grains of sand? Fewer grains of sand.”

    • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Oh believe me, I know. I agree.

      but the argument nowadays is that common usage dictates that both are now “acceptable”, similar to how apparently “literally” now effectively means “figuratively” because everyone uses it.

    • boatswain@infosec.pub
      2·
      4 months ago

      Along with that, I’ll add in “number” vs “amount”:

      • A shocking number of people get this wrong (countable)
      • The amount of confusion about it is distressing (aggregate)