
Originally Posted by
ellipsis
...when the world was more fun and there were less complaints
Just to add one more complaint that most would call frivilous.
"Fewer" is used for discrete entities. "Less" is reserved for the continuous e.g. you can have less rain but you can't have less raindrops you can only have fewer raindrops.
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