Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning - Rich Cook I'm completely at a loss for the source of this quote. Google and Google ...

commented: -1 for the time being because it's unnecessarily confusing. The key is probably the last sentence of your edit, but it's kind of buried under the rest. The bit about less vs. fewer in particular is irrelevant (and wrong to boot). The two example sentences about cats do not match the structure of OP's sentence and are not explained but rather left as an exercise to the reader ("Which sounds right? Good luck."). In short, I'd mercilessly remove everything except for the last sentence, and then flesh that bit out, and only that bit.

Is prepper a word that an average english speaking person understands (and also uses)?

i have a game that gives players a 6x6 grind of letters that they can choose in whatever order to create words. when a level starts the game collects a number of words,scrambles the letters together and removes any letters in excess of 36. when the players select the letters and submit them for a...

Rarely do we hear "should have gone" in common speech. Some background: My father immigrated to the US in the late 60s. He learned English first overseas, British English. Then he studied extensively in America. He always corrected me and my brothers on us saying "you/I/they should have went"....