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Dress for the job (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 points 17 hours ago

You seem to have the same problem I do. 🤭 it turns out several is kind of a fucking useless term, meaning more than two but fewer than many in number or kind. So...it's defined by a bunch of nonsense-fluff numbers.

Several cannot mean two...but several can be 3. My sister called me to deal with "several" whatevers, I came over & there were 3 whatevers (can't remember what it was), and I was like what the hell, sister, you said several & looked it up. Several sounds like 7, but it can mean 3 to idk, 9. It's stupid.

For 3, most people would describe that quantity as "a few".