http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=30679&page=5&view=collapsed&sb=5&vc=1#Post30679

You'll have to cut and paste this one, Keiva, as making it a "hotlink" would drive us beyond the limits of certain *resolutions.......and I'm vehemently opposed to "self-yarting"

I "have to say" that, in this case of the usage of "less", the function is clearly quantity and not quality, and that its wide spread use and understanding superceeds it's *correctness.

ps. - I know you won't take that as a personal attack, but I'm sure someone else will...