Hacker News Reader

But how many points in grammar trolling?

...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.

Less is used when you can't count the object discussed. Fewer is used when you can.

"I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money."

"I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."

I dunno...

"Fewer rational numbers" works, but "less real numbers" sounds funny.

I feel like I'm missing a joke here, but you can count real numbers ("the list contains 5 real numbers") therefore it's "fewer real numbers"

I can never remember a lot of those "X or Y" rules in grammar/English. Fewer or less, whom or who, etc.

Might be my own ignorance, might be my teachers growing up using trainwrecks like "yous" and "alls."