For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    3 months ago

    geringer vs weniger in German, and they have nice counting rules too for “none” and “not”.

    That’s not a dog → Das ist nicht ein Hund (wrong, a dog is countable)
    That’s no dog → Das ist kein Hund (right, you can count a dog)

    Both sentences are valid in English, but only one is valid in German