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Old 03-7-2014, 09:15 PM   #1
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I know this is a bizarre place for this, but is it gramatically correct to say "to cessate X", as in "to end X"?

I know there's "cease" and "cessation", but "to cessate" doesn't return a lot of results on google, even though some people have definitely used it in this context. It's either ridiculously obscure or just plain wrong. Help, it's killing me.
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Old 03-7-2014, 09:19 PM   #2
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'cessate' is not a word in the dictionaries I checked.

this isn't a grammar question though
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Old 03-7-2014, 09:20 PM   #3
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You'd bring about a cessation. You don't cessate things. You cause cessation to happen.
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Old 03-7-2014, 09:21 PM   #4
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Ok, thanks. English isn't my first language. It seemed right to me for some reason, lol
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Old 03-7-2014, 09:41 PM   #5
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to cease(v) something is to cause cessation(n). They come from the same word do they not? (Latin - cedere)

otherwise your assumption wasn't wrong at all.
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Old 03-7-2014, 10:41 PM   #6
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while we're on the subject can people please learn the difference between lesser and fewer
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Old 03-7-2014, 10:47 PM   #7
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The lesser people know the difference the better to piss you off.
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Old 03-7-2014, 10:50 PM   #8
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while we're on the subject can people please learn the difference between lesser and fewer
i've never come across any instance of somebody confusing those
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Old 03-7-2014, 10:55 PM   #9
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I used to all the time to the annoyance of my former SO. I probably use it when, in my head, there's not a clear distinction between number and amount. Like, something can have a lot of apple in it and can have a lot of apples in it. Sure the sentence is different if I say 'I want fewer apples' or 'I want less apple' but I would easily say 'I want less apples'.
I wouldn't say I want lesser apples though I suppose.

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Old 03-7-2014, 11:18 PM   #10
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i've never come across any instance of somebody confusing those
Have you been to a supermarket?
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Old 03-7-2014, 11:23 PM   #12
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Maybe they know the difference and are just trying to insult things.
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Old 03-7-2014, 11:24 PM   #13
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I guess the point is the most common place I see people mixing them up is at the supermarket where you have those express lanes for "10 items or less"
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Old 03-7-2014, 11:36 PM   #14
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oh, i meant lesser and fewer

descriptively both less and fewer are used to describe smaller quantities of countable items. since people use those words that way and have been doing so for hundreds of years i think it's erroneous to correct the usage of less for countable items, and in strictly doing so is sometimes a hypercorrection that causes unidiomatic phrasing in certain cases.
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oh, i meant lesser and fewer

descriptively both less and fewer used to describe smaller naztities of countable items. since the ple use my ose words that way and have been doing so for hundreds of years i think it's erroneous to correct the usage of less for countable items, and in strictly doing so is sometimes a hypercorrection that causes unidiomatic phrasing in certain cases.
Ah ok, I was lumping together lesser, fewer, and all of their immediate deviations. Youre right though, being a grammar nazi 100% of the time isn't the best thing for society.
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Next is the split infinitive discussion guys
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Old 03-8-2014, 03:15 AM   #17
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Next is the split infinitive discussion guys
To informatively discuss such a lesser topic would quite possibly be counter-productive, as not many people are interested in the quips of grammar as minute as this. did i do the thing????
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