I really really don't want to grammar-nitpick (this looks like an amazing product) but 'less bugs' kind of hints at low quality. If I were you (and I'm not) I would replace that with 'fewer bugs' or whatever.
All that said, the product is fantastic. Have been using it for a year on an almost daily basis.
Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act III, scene I
FLAMINIUS: ..."Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,"...
But... I would argue that this is consistent because 'two nights' isn't a countable quantity, it's an 'un-countable' period of time.
Although you could argue the opposite is true because 'two' does look very much like counting.
Less has always been used in English with countable nouns.
I took pains to say that I wasn't asserting any universal truth about the English language. I'm not taking a position on whether it has or hasn't been used in English or any other language, with or without nouns, countable or otherwise. I gave my perspective about my reaction to reading 'less bugs' and suggested what I would do were I the author (acknowledging as I did it, that I amn't).
You might be able to present me with evidence and thereby change my internal grammar (I'm sure everyone except Chomsky has their own individual version), but it might be a few years before those words no longer triggered the same response.
I'm game if you are.
(Edit: dmm edited his comment to remove the words "Is there any evidence I could present that you would accept?" from this comment's parent. For shame!)
You claimed regret in "grammar nitpicking". I claim that saying "less bugs" is perfectly acceptable grammar. I interpreted your original comment as meaning you think "less bugs" is incorrect grammar. Maybe you should have said something like "style nitpicking".
You're the one making BS grammar claims and refusing to own up to it when you're called on it.
Are you saying that my 'regretting nitpicking' is a grammar claim? It was true when I wrote it and doubly so now.
Are you saying that when I wrote 'you could say' that I was making an assertion? "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it," and all that. If everything is black and white to you then I'm not much interested in continuing this conversation.
Are you saying that my reference to this as a grammar issue and not one of style is a claim? If so, I suggest you head over to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less and correct all the text and metadata that mentions 'grammar' in the context of that argument.
> I haven't made a single grammar claim.
I interpreted you using the word 'grammar' to mean that you were making a grammatical claim. And I was thinking of grammar as binary thing, either right or wrong. I thought of grammar as a set of rules that would determine whether a statement was well-formed.
You include in the idea of grammar not only correctness but also judgements like: "less bugs" sounds bad to me and probably isn't appropriate for professional communications. In my mind at the time that sort of statement wouldn't have been a matter of grammar. Maybe spending all day with formal languages and programming gave me that idea.
I don't know how to communicate with you. It's hard to do sometimes with just the written word. Sorry for wasting your time.