There are not rules there are conventions. And they are arbitrary in that they are determined arbitrarily through conventions. Consider heavy slang, accents, connotations and of course uertlty bzirrae siht lkie tihs rnamiineg eretliny ilbilliegtne. So mcuh for the rlues of slilenpg!
.noitanalpxe orez etipsed ,siht daer ot elba eb neve thgim uoy
“Fewer.” - Stannis Baratheon
So random, I just had a YouTube recommendation of stannis correcting Arya’s grammar.
He corrects everyone one the less/fewer thing. It’s kind of his thing.
the less/fewer distinction was made up by a king one day… because he felt like it…
but, english is a living language and words mean what people intend them to mean, not what some dead guy mote thus be foretold, henceforth…
language is made up and nobody is an authority
idk how you can downvote something that is trivially true. techbros lmao, language isn’t lilke programming languages
It’s not really arbitrary. There are rules. You’re following several in your comment.
false.
There are not rules there are conventions. And they are arbitrary in that they are determined arbitrarily through conventions. Consider heavy slang, accents, connotations and of course uertlty bzirrae siht lkie tihs rnamiineg eretliny ilbilliegtne. So mcuh for the rlues of slilenpg!
.noitanalpxe orez etipsed ,siht daer ot elba eb neve thgim uoy