Grammar rodeo!

[illyana delorean]

>--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:
>>  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?

Susan Miller wrote:

>"You were seen, no less, by 7 muggles!"

Wouldn't the proper way to say that be "You were seen, nonetheless, 
by seven muggles"?

illyana

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