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As I hear this commercial, the narrator means that you take 2 instead of 8 pills - one fourth of the number of pills - not that you take pills one time a day instead of five times - which is four times fewer. Obviously, the narrator is using 'times' in the arithmetical sense and tries to invert the multiplication by adding 'fewer'. I hate that.
As tsuwm points out, fewer pills does not mean less medicine or less pain relief. If I'd just quit grinding my teeth, I might have fewer headaches.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted paging Faldage Jackie 07/30/09 02:12 AM Re: paging Faldage Faldage 07/30/09 09:45 AM Re: paging Faldage tsuwm 07/30/09 03:57 PM Re: paging Faldage Faldage 07/30/09 11:01 PM Re: paging Faldage Jackie 07/31/09 02:12 AM Re: paging Faldage Faldage 07/31/09 10:25 AM Re: paging Faldage seapea 08/01/09 06:05 AM Re: paging Faldage BranShea 08/01/09 09:13 AM Re: paging Faldage Faldage 08/01/09 11:55 AM Re: paging Faldage seapea 08/01/09 01:22 PM Re: less-fewer ukase zmjezhd 08/01/09 02:23 PM Re: less-fewer ukase Faldage 08/01/09 05:17 PM Re: less-fewer ukase seapea 08/06/09 02:41 PM
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