• Dum@reddthat.com
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    Non native speaker here.

    “Much” refers to something not countable, like “much more milk”, and is used without plural, “liter” is countable such that you could say “many more liters of milk” (note the plural of liter). So while I’d say the latter is more correct according to grammatical rules, if both are common, both can be considered correct, as rules are often rewritten to adapt to the way the English language is used.

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      FWIW, as a native speaker, “much more images” is incorrect enough that seeing it would tell me that the author’s first language isn’t English.

      Having complex and arbitrary grammatical rules solely to telegraph education sucks though, so vive la revolution.

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        Thanks for the confirmation!

        Do you know what could be the explanation for google showing more results with “many more images”?

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          Root cause? The complexity of English makes it an absurd choice for a worldwide standard.

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            Every language is complex, wtf are you smoking? If anything I’d say English is the best choice for a global standard because of how adaptible it is and the fact that it’s already the global common language for a bunch of industries. Reversing that will be challenging if not impossible

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      That was my reasoning, which is correct in my native language (Spanish: "muchas más imágenes). That’s why seeing more results for “much more images” suprised me.

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    Native speaker here. I agree with the others that “many” is correct.

    Also, I only get 43 results for your first search, and 3,100,000 for the second.

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      Thanks!

      I only get 43 results for your first search,

      My bad, I didn’t mean there were a lot of results using both in the same document. I also get very few results for hat search.

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        No, I mean I got 43 results on a Google search for the first quoted phrase, and 3.1M for the second quoted phrase. That’s two separate G searches. I was not looking for documents with both phrases.

        • Crul@lemm.eeOP
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          Definitively Google numbers are nonsense, now I see 1.1M

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            Definitely bs. I got 1.1 on first visit too. Then I refreshed the page and it was 42.