COS: New Incantations

GulPlum plumeski at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 20 03:38:37 UTC 2002


Susan Miller wrote in reply to my earlier rant:
 
> > Incidentally, and changing the subject to another language: re. 
> > Snape's opening scene reading the riot act to H&R: "no FEWER than 
> > seven Muggles", not "no LESS than seven Muggles". 

> That often annoys me, too, but in this case, I heard it
> differently, as in "no less" referred to the state of the disaster 
> rather than the count of muggles. Maybe it was just my grammarian 
> ears making the correction.

Huh? How can the term in "You were seen by no less than seven 
Muggles" refer to *anything* other than the number of Muggles?







More information about the HPFGU-Movie archive