[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Fewer than vs. less than.

"A lot" would be great, if only people would spell the two words correctly. But it's apparently more important to ban books about Black history than it is to know that "allot" doesn't mean "a lot" and that "alot" isn't a word at all.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Fewer than vs. less than.

"A lot" would be great, if only people would spell the two words correctly. But it's apparently more important to ban books about Black history than it is to know that "allot" doesn't mean "a lot" and that "alot" isn't a word at all.

A lot - a piece of land

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

A lot - a piece of land

It also means "a measure." - as in, drawing lots, and the shortest/longest one wins/loses. Or as in, a vague quantity of something that implies "many/much/significant amount".

Susie has a lot of common sense.

There are lots of people here today.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Laker14

They could care less.

[collie1228]

Grammar is dead. Now that we can choose our own pronouns, the sentence "They is a pretty girl" is now correct.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by collie1228

"They is a pretty girl"

He shore was, eh!?

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

It’s probably because people learn a “proper” usage and then believe they are right. Last week someone claimed “golf” was not a verb - it is. Now a claim is made that “several” or “many” are not synonyms of “multiple” - they are.

Online dictionaries and thesauruses are easy to find.

Online dictionaries and thesauruses are easy to find, and changing with every new addition/edition. Bought 3 vintage at Friends of the Library sale, 2 dictionaries (both Webster) and a thesaurus. Amazing how they differ by year, and I also have my UNDERGRAD volumes, how very different they are !

[Normal]

There are of course “multiples” of fractions decimals and even the square root of 1 (if you want to use i or -i). I don’t get your beef. Maybe you are thinking of the limited answers/products of your universe or paradigm using elementary type whole numbers?

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by collie1228

Grammar is dead. Now that we can choose our own pronouns, the sentence "They is a pretty girl" is now correct.

Exactly, grammar's priority, as a "subject" of study, died with history, civics, and the rest of that old boring "stuff". Times change, rather for the better, or to our demise, only time will tell ... as they say.

[Davonu]

Originally Posted by turneronce

Use of language on this forum and elsewhere is getting pretty bad. The latest, heard everywhere, including on major networks, is the misuse of the word multiple”. 8 is a multiple of 2, 9 a multiple of 3. What happened to what they really mean, like “several”, “a few”, “many”, etc.? Am I picky? Yes, words have meaning.

Yes. Words do have meaning. And you are really setting yourself up for frustration if you get upset about what you feel is improper use of a word when it actually is not…

“A multiple in math are the numbers you get when you multiply a certain number by an integer. For example, multiples of 5 are: 10, 15, 20, 25, 30…etc.”

[Normal]

Originally Posted by Davonu

Yes. Words do have meaning. And you are really setting yourself up for frustration if you get upset about what you feel is improper use of a word when it actually is not…

“A multiple in math are the numbers you get when you multiply a certain number by an integer. For example, multiples of 5 are: 10, 15, 20, 25, 30…etc.”

Maybe the direct object isn’t a 5, it could be a slice of a whole cheesecake cut into eight pieces. In that case (forgive my restrictive clause), multiples of the slice are equal to 1/8th. I would gladly eat eight pieces to demonstrate 1 whole…lol.

The multiplicative inverse is the difficult part. Undoing the damage of 8 slices to the love handle appendages could be tricky.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Normal

Maybe the direct object isn’t a 5, it could be a slice of a whole cheesecake cut into eight pieces. In that case (forgive my restrictive clause), multiples of the slice are equal to 1/8th. I would gladly eat eight pieces to demonstrate 1 whole…lol.

The multiplicative inverse is the difficult part. Undoing the damage of 8 slices to the love handle appendages could be tricky.

Sorry! You lost me at "cheesecake". All that rich and tasty goodness. Oooo, soo good.

Gotta go!

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by collie1228

Grammar is dead. Now that we can choose our own pronouns, the sentence "They is a pretty girl" is now correct.

Grammar is dead only to those who never paid attention in class.

'They are pretty."

Too bad the teachers are no longer allowed to teach this stuff, lest the alt-fact folks come around and slap them.

When you can show us where on the dolly the pronoun hurt you, maybe there'll be hope for a civil conversation about the topic.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Pairadocs

Exactly, grammar's priority, as a "subject" of study, died with history, civics, and the rest of that old boring "stuff". Times change, rather for the better, or to our demise, only time will tell ... as they say.

Who needs civics and history when we can have artificial intelligence to do all our thinking for us? We should just all become worker drones. Life will be so much more simple while we enjoy our dinner of soylent green

[Worldseries27]

Idc