100's of millions will die a horrible death due to Chinese virus

[NotAllThere]

Unfortunately Mordac is suffering from the etymological fallacy. He should consider that next time he drinks a spirit (and consider Genesis 1:2, NAT).

I was thinking of making a joke concerning the second song on Genesis' first album. But it turns out it's called "In The Beginning".

It still does in my house...

On a more important subject, do you use less and fewer correctly?

[DimPrawn]

I was thinking of making a joke concerning the second song on Genesis' first album. But it turns out it's called "In The Beginning".

On a more important subject, do you use less and fewer correctly?

I use fewer on less occasions mostly.

[Old Greg]

I was thinking of making a joke concerning the second song on Genesis' first album. But it turns out it's called "In The Beginning".

On a more important subject, do you use less and fewer correctly?

Stop being mean.

[Andy2]

get corona virus done

[Old Greg]

get corona virus done

"Send it packing" is the preferred boosterism.

[Lance]

The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.

Nice used to mean silly.
Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
Hussy used to mean housewife
Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.

Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

TL;DR - don't be a prat.

Brexit used to mean Brexit.

[Mordac]

I was thinking of making a joke concerning the second song on Genesis' first album. But it turns out it's called "In The Beginning".

On a more important subject, do you use less and fewer correctly?

I had to google that one, it's not part of my Genesis collection (and with very good reason, it's pretty terrible). In future, I will listen to it less often, or on fewer occasions.

[NotAllThere]

I'm vaguely interested in the versions without strings. You can hear the beginnings of the Genesis sound, so for completeness, it's worth it.