Timeline for Is it ever correct to say "no people is better"?
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| Aug 23, 2016 at 18:07 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 16:19 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Aug 23, 2016 at 13:02 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's fine. You're effectively using no people to reference one of two possible states, irrespective of how many people might be present in each of those states. Same principle as three is better than two, where semantically the reference is to a (singular) number, not the "plural value" of the number. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 4:44 | comment | added | deadrat | Well, There's no people like show people. It's fine. Just make sure your friend doesn't hear No, people is better. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 3:00 | history | asked | Neel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |