I understand that U/C part, but "more or less" in this case is an idiom meaning "to a varying or undetermined extent or degree" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary). We can't have it as "more or fewer".
kb Marcin MiÅkowski wrote thus at 10:40 PM 07-03-14: >I'm not sure it's correct English. "Combinations" is countable, so there >cannot be "less combinations", only "fewer combinations". I couldn't >find many examples of "more or less" with plural countable nouns in any >corpus. > >So I think this is not a bug but a feature. > >Regards, >Marcin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
