Severus_Snape@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agoThis is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dyinglemmy.worldimagemessage-square95linkfedilinkarrow-up1496arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1480arrow-down1imageThis is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dyinglemmy.worldSeverus_Snape@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-26 days agomessage-square95linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoTwice more than I would have liked to. Very fortunate nobody was hurt
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoTwice more is plus two, not times two
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoI’ve never seen ‘twice’ used like that, do you have a link to back that up? If I search “twice more” on the web, I get zero results.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoIt’s how I learnt to use the words. “Twice as much” or “twice as many” = 2x, “twice more than” is +2. It’s less than perfectly standard, but it’s unambiguous in English as I was taught
Twice more than I would have liked to.
Very fortunate nobody was hurt
0 x 2 = 0
Twice more is plus two, not times two
I’ve never seen ‘twice’ used like that, do you have a link to back that up? If I search “twice more” on the web, I get zero results.
It’s how I learnt to use the words. “Twice as much” or “twice as many” = 2x, “twice more than” is +2. It’s less than perfectly standard, but it’s unambiguous in English as I was taught