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		gugagore on July 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stanford president resigns over manipulated resear... In case your point is that using "less" instead of "fewer" for countable nouns is an example of unclear communication, let me disagree with the point.

OJFord on July 20, 2023 [–]

Less so (more awkward) here than in other cases, but it's as if the misunderstandings were smaller in magnitude rather than quantity or frequency.

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