Interesting Links for 25-11-2017

[andrewducker]

Holocaust memorial built outside home of right wing German politician (tags: germany holocaust ) Stupid less/fewer automatism at the WSJ (tags: grammar fail ) Using a faecal microbiota transplant cured 92% of people with Clostridium difficile that had recurred or had not responded to antibiotics (tags: faeces ) Possibly the finest recipe of all

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[woodpijn]

At least that less/fewer example merely sounds over-formal, rather than actually wrong. I saw an example recently where presumably someone was twitchy about less/fewer and changed "less" to "fewer" even though "fewer" no longer conveyed the intended meaning: "DryDye technology is a polyester fabric dyeing process that uses no water, 50% fewer chemicals and 50% less energy than the traditional fabric dyeing process." (https://www.adidas-group.com/en/sustainability/products/sustainability-innovation/#/adidas-drydye/)

[andrewducker]

It had 17 chemicals before, and now it has only 15!