/lit/ - Literature

In real life it's "less" and "fewer." Specifically people say less when they mean fewer.

alot alot alot

>>20029750
Americans using past tense desclension in place of perfect tense
>I have drank
>I have drove
nigga, you don't say "I have did," do you?

>>20029750
Very cleaver

>>20029750
They’re, their, there. All the time.

>>20029773
fewer is used for objects or groupings of objects, less is used for intangible things like emotions or feelings... or sand because it's defined by its plurality. I wish I could describe that less artistically but I've been out of the writing game for a decade.
>>20029783
I always assume they're just shitposting or being a normalfag.
>>20029790
You snooze, you loose.
>>20029793
That's a classic. It also bothers me when people use the possessive form of it instead of the contraction. It's (it's a wolf) vs. Its (bared its teeth).

>>20029906
less *autistically and good god my capitalization is having an identity crisis

>>20029750
For some reason every fucking person on the internet thinks that "phenomena" is both singular and plural

>>20029773
I see that much fewer often than I see >>20029793

>An History

>>20029906
I half naught slept well inn weaks

>With all intensive purposes

>>20029915
Phenomenon, doot doot da doo doo~

>>20029934
It's a doggy dog world out there and you'd be harp rest to deny that.

But what are some less common mistakes? I was reading the last book in a series about knights and the author mixed up his two protagonists. I stopped reading there. Fuck you, Chuck Black!

>>20029790
Cleaver, very
If you get the joke, congratulations

"Different than" instead of "different from" is an increasingly common one.

I've noticed that zoomers think of subordinate clauses in terms of whether the subordinate clause "feels" related to the primary clause, and they just sort of appropriate a connecting word or phrase without caring what it actually means. They say a lot of shit like
>I usually eat a lot of butter, where to I get sick.

I think zoomers are regressing to an oral culture in Walter Ong's sense of the term. They don't think in literate structures anymore, they haven't actually internalized literacy, which is interesting because they still seem to function in a quasi-literate society. They must have just enough literacy to parse simple declarative prose, like street signs and simple transcriptions of zoomer thoughts ("Are you going" "If you are going I will go too"), while otherwise being functionally illiterate.

>>20029778
I personally know that it should be a lot, but I never used the proper one because there's about a 1% chance someone will get upset by my use of alot. Im intentionally trying to anger that 1%

What keeps me up at night is the opposite of less/fewer. I get that one should use fewer when it's countable and less when it's uncountable. But what's the rule for "more" or "greater than"? Being an autist, i want there to be words that are analogously opposite.

>>20031417
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from#Preposition

Looking at all the roles the word "from" uses, isn't not exactly intuitive why it should take this role of indicating differentiation more than "than" should, except that "than" has the role of comparing two things that have different extents of the same attribute, but it never becomes ambiguous because the addition of the word "different" sets the context... so what's your reasoning for why "different than" shouldn't be used aside from "well, it didn't use to be."

>>20029750
I dunno, why don't you look in the mirror? Do you think not capitalizing the first letter of your sentences makes you seem casual and hip?

>>20031781
hitting shift makes you look like someone who reads books in public to be seen reading

>>20029750

>and therefore
instead of ;therefore,. the and is unnecessary

>everyone and anyone used with they
everyone and anyone are singular.
This is called the singular they

>past tense verbs used with have. for example, have went, have did, have drank, have took, etc.

>died from
it's actually died of. he died of cancer, not he died from cancer

people confuse hanged with hung


they'll he was hung from a tree

it's actually he was hanged from a tree

>>20031909

they'll say he was*

>>20031417
>I've noticed that zoomers think of subordinate clauses in terms of whether the subordinate clause "feels" related to the primary clause, and they just sort of appropriate a connecting word or phrase without caring what it actually means.
true

https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/so-dont-i

What do /lit/izens think of "so don't I"?

aren't i?

it's actually am i?


aren't i? is common in anime subtitles

>>20031961

or am i not?*

>>20031967
>>20031961
Ain't I a stinker?

>>20029783
>The Seahawks should’ve ran the ball
This annoys me to no end

>>20029783
>nigga, you don't say "I have did," do you?
Now I will start talking like this.

>>20029981
People that say these are a diamond dozen though

Defiantly instead of definitely. I assume it's a combination of not knowing how to spell definitely plus autocorrect, but who knows.

>>20032488
Heh, is that from the World Chess Championship, or has he been fucking up all over the map since then as well?

>>20031443
I respect this enormously.

>>20032792
It's from the WCC. He hasn't been that bad since.

>>20029750
Dangling & misplaced participles:
>Running round the corner, a street-lamp came into view.

Hyphens regarded as optional extras:
>Yesterday I saw a man eating tiger.
>Yesterday I saw a man-eating tiger.
Not the same thing. Just about opposite, in fact.

"Then / than"
>You think you're so smart but you're no better then me!

"I" / "me"
>As we left, Grandma gave Rupert and I $50 each.