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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Mar 24 03:22:19 +0000 2009 ------- More details about the issue from the original bug submitter: see Wiktionary; "The difference between less and fewer is that the former refers to an amount, while the latter refers to a numbered quantity of undivided items". Without this distinction, a whole mountain of precision is lost. Consider as a topical example the difference between the two phrases "less documented libraries" and "fewer documented libraries". The former implies that there are "libraries" whose documentation is lacking, whereas the latter implies that there are a smaller number of "documented libraries". To lose the usage of "fewer" would be to create an ambiguity: when discussing "less documented libraries", it would be unknown whether the documentation was lacking, or whether there were fewer libraries. Naturally, neither of those situations are desirable, but it's always nice to know what people are talking about! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
