Jun 12, 2011 · In other words, he is "more or less" able to convey the intended meaning depending on the mutual understanding of the respective local English dialect. Similarly, when you say your food is so-so, you mean that it is "more or less" okay to eat, depending on your own perspective. For example, one might not find anything excellent about a ...

In Swedish we have: - less/more = mindre/mer - fewer/more = färre/fler. So my suggestion is English use the word ‘flore’ to mean ‘more objects’. This of course makes it easy to confuse with ‘floor’ and to mend this, I suggest ‘floor’ gets replaced by the Swedish counterpart ‘golv’.

1 is less than 2. 1 is the lesser number when compared to 2. Which you use depends totally on the context. Whether a higher integer means more depends on what you mean when you say more - as you suggest more debt means less cash. This is even more complex when considering negative numbers. Which is greater,-1 or -2. If you are discussing ...

Mar 6, 2018 · Could you please tell me how I could replace "more or less" to make it more formal in the following sentence: "Those behaviours are more or less dangerous to them" I've been looking for a correct sentence for a while, but it seems that my brain has blown a fuse. Thank you!

Less refers to quantity, lesser refers to quality. Your sentence could be rephrased as "substitute less punishment for more punishment." Here we are saying that the amount of punishment is smaller. But if you say "substitute the lesser punishment" you are saying the type of punishment is not as severe. Forty lashes is less punishment than 100 ...

Obviously, since the term more and less (or any other comparatives) are used, there have to be at least two points of reference for each criterion. But becoming , as well as the suggested alternative, getting , give a greater sense of a continuous progression in both directions.

Mar 28, 2015 · Both "I have no less than 1000" and "I have not less than 1000" mean "I have 1000 or more." Also, Brian is correct that using "no more (less)" is much more common than using "not more (less)". I would caution you against using "not" instead of "no" with less/more. Even though it might be technically correct, I wouldn't consider it idiomatic.

Jun 27, 2019 · much less. P.4. much less (also far less, still less): used to characterize a statement or suggestion as still more unacceptable or inapposite than one that has been already denied. 1526 He..concludeth that the Iewes can not be Abrahams heyres because of bloud and kynred only, and moche lesse by the workes of the lawe. W. Tyndale, Prol. Epist.

Oct 22, 2012 · "The more you think, the less you act" is the Jenny Craig version: attractive even if underweight. I'd say, "The more you think about it, the less likely you'll act on it": I insist on (pseudo)parallelism, even in speech. The "it is" adds only elided info …

Apr 9, 2020 · Any more than is a special idiomatic construction that occurs only in negative contexts. Without the not in don't want (however you say or spell it), *I want to do it any more/less than you do is ungrammatical. And less would also be ungrammatical with the negative, because less is also negative: *I don't want to do it any less than you do ...