Several centuries of consistent use gives the rule enough validity
Consistent use? It's more like several centuries in which loads of people have used "less" in exactly the way you decry. Not the soundest basis for calling peope "illiterate".
Like many so-called grammatical rules, this really is just a shibboleth for class and authority.
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Date: 2008-Oct-02, Thursday 12:40 (UTC)Consistent use? It's more like several centuries in which loads of people have used "less" in exactly the way you decry. Not the soundest basis for calling peope "illiterate".
Like many so-called grammatical rules, this really is just a shibboleth for class and authority.