Issue 52552

Summary:	grammar nit: "Less Options"
Product:	Impress	Reporter:	skelem <steve>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	falko.tesch
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	issues@graphics <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P4	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 2.0 Beta
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description skelem 2005-07-27 18:22:09 UTC

The Find & Replace popup has a button with the text "Less Options".
The text should read "Fewer Options".
The fewer/less rule is: if you the thing you're modifying is quantizable (i.e.,
you can count them), then use "fewer", otherwise use "less".
Examples: "less sugar", "fewer cups/teaspoons/molecules/crystals/types of sugar".
You can't count "sugar", but you can count measures/classifiers/containers of sugar.

Comment 1 wolframgarten 2005-07-28 07:55:24 UTC

Reproducible.

Comment 2 wolframgarten 2005-07-28 07:55:47 UTC

Reassigned.

Comment 3 eric.savary 2009-02-03 09:02:17 UTC

*** Issue 98759 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 4 uncoolcentral 2009-03-02 19:40:02 UTC

Was reporting this same issue and found this thread. I agree. "Fewer Options" is
grammatically correct. But alas it looks like this issue has been lingering for
almost four years. Low priority. I won't hold my breath. ;)

Comment 5 stefan.baltzer 2009-04-20 18:21:47 UTC

Now hold your breath:

I looked at the latest OpenOffice.org 3.1 ReleaseCandidate. 
Available at http://download.openoffice.org/next

And voila, this particular embarrasment has been wiped off the innocent English
UI and sent to where it already belonged for years, in order not to hurt
anybodies eyes anymore :-) 

This translates to : Fixed, verifed in OOO310_m9.

Comment 6 stefan.baltzer 2009-04-20 18:23:44 UTC

*** Issue 100494 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 7 stefan.baltzer 2009-04-20 18:24:30 UTC

Verifed in OOO310_m9.

Comment 8 stefan.baltzer 2009-04-20 18:27:06 UTC

Closed.