The language is ancient, but, since it has continued to be used long past its ancient origin, words and phrases have been coined in later periods for various purposes.

Also, the “early modern” era is roughly considered the period between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution.

“Less” is correct. “Less” had been used synonymously with “fewer” to denote countables for centuries before the contrivance of a distinction, and that usage has continued on despite some’s insistence of one.

Unless you are writing in some professional or technical sense that demands “fewer” instead, “less” is fine.

I’m not sure I follow that math.

We need to empower a multidisciplinary workgroup to establish a performative analysis of our process capabilities from a data driven perspective relative to this newly published benchmark.

We (at least used to) learn basic probabilities and averages (mean median, mode) in grade school. Maybe a little about distributions and deviations in the upper grades, but not greater statistical analysis unless you are in college prep courses.

To pray for Trump to suddenly grow a conscience, right???

Taste is the second most important feature of Vodka in that it is not supposed to have one. The least important feature is whether it is made from potatoes or not. You can make vodka out of practically anything.

Erin esurance, hands down.

Depends what you count as “animals”. Because if ants get the vote, then we are all now vassals of one of the supercolonies.

For better or worse, relatively few animals live to the national voting age.

Thanks… Now you’ve got me thinking about /HAAW/.

Except free diving

Legend of Zelda:

• Breath of the Wild
• Tears of the Kingdom
• Twilight Princess
• Links Awakening

Stardew Valley

Witcher III

Skyrim

Are eyebrow 🐍 dozens of super short snakes or one snake on each side?

If you seek a man in the languor of loss, look for He in Anhui.

Touché

💡!

Roll the slice up into a croissant!

I… I…

sometimes I underestimate the power of my own pedantry…

Upvote for the main thought, but

1. A gasoline engine is a type of motor. You are making a distinction without a difference. A motor is just something that produces mechanical motion. Motor. Motion. Motivate. All come from the same root as “move”
2. An “engine” can be the whole apparatus that does the work, not merely the thing that provides the power, and could be powered by a water, beast, or even manually such as the cotton [en]gin[e]. A lot of that usage comes from pre WW2, but it survives in things like “train engine” (the vehicle that pushes or pulls a train) and “game engine” (the program architecture that manages the processing power provided by the computer to convert user interactions, game assets, etc. into something that we recognize as a game).
3. It’s not a four-cycle engine. It is a four-stroke engine: each piston makes four strokes each complete engine cycle.

I have an old tv where the mute button will set it to 1/2 volume first, then mute.