I want to be "one less."

Don't get me started on count and non-count nouns. Karl, that means you. Anyhoo, this exchange between a consumer and the Coca Cola company made me laugh.

Please save our children's understanding of the English language from the advertisers.

P.S. Confidential to Karl: usage and pronunciation are different. Yes, they ARE.

Comments

[Karl]

When did I ever say that usage and pronunciation were the same thing?

[thelizabeth]

During one of our nerd arguments. In a moment of frustration with my insistence that the "I want to be one less" victim campaign is more severe a grammatical atrocity than how I pronounce "pedagogy" is an aberration.