Buffy ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fewer than three people. People are countable.
Of course, xpost. Note from linguistics friend when she told us about this--apparently in Russian, bread is countable. As in you can have three bread (vs here you have to have loaves of bread or slices or kinds or?) I guess. Or maybe just in a less vs fewer way. Dunno.
If you'd ask "how many?" then it's "fewer." If you'd ask "how much?" then it's "less."
Or alien face-sucker. Whichever.
I answer "Hello, this is Matt" when someone transfers a call to me at work, and "[company name], may I help you?" when I answer directly.
Or alien face-sucker. Whichever.
Yeah, that was my thought.
Also, Baby + Alien Face Hugger = Tiny, Cute Chest Burster!
Fewer than is what I thought (the con call line says "less than"), but as I started getting thinky, I'm mentally rewriting it "This conference call line has < three people on it."
And it made me all confused. Because I do think like that sometimes, and I will always read that aloud as "less than three" (well, or hearts, depending).
Anyway, doesn't "less than three" mean love now??
(I less than three crossposts...)
I can't remember whether someone linked this already. German family granted asylum in US because Germany won't let them homeschool their kids. [link]
I'm so used to it that if a phone rings on the television I say, in my head, "[Agency], this is Aimee."
When I worked at McDonald's in high school, there were days when, after working an 8-hour shift in the drive-thru, I would answer the phone with "Welcome to McDonald's; may I take your order?"
I never get calls at work, which is just fine with me.