22-06-2023, 11:20 AM
(20-06-2023, 03:08 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Oh yes, my favourite nerdish complaint. People who do not understand their own language. My personal trigger is the use of less instead of fewer. As in fewer aftershocks, not less...
Yes. It drives me nuts too. And while I'm mentally correcting the person I then miss out on listening properly to what they are actually saying.
The other one that has this effect on me is "between" (two people) versus "among" (three or more people).
That has now reminded me that recently I have seen confusion between "affect" and "effect".