[ExI] young people having less sex

[William Flynn Wallace]

Grammar problem:  'less' usually refers to things that are continuous in
quantity - more rice, less rice, whereas 'fewer'usually refers to things
that are discrete in quantity - more eggs, fewer eggs.  So you can have
fewer people, not less people.

But just what is sex??  Discrete or continuous?  Have to go with discrete,
which makes the awkward construction 'people having fewer sex'.  Nah.
Fewer sex 'acts' works.

People who go all the way with the male to female thing could, in a twisted
way, have less sex, or maybe less sex things to have sex with.  Nah, still
have to be fewer.

Sorry I wasted your time.

bill w

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:20 PM Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sort of related to the original subject:
>
>
> https://medium.com/the-radical-center/does-america-have-a-child-bride-crisis-fa4afdb7b4bc
>
> And Peron seems correct about how people code this issue in a way that
> makes there appear to be a bigger problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
> http://author.to/DanUst
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