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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50434194

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t think we understand each other.

    To me, several times shorter makes perfect sense, and twice as short is a special case, where it is two times as short. Thus, several times shorter includes:

    • two times shorter == twice as short
    • 1.5 times shorter == 1.5 times as short
    • five times shorter == five times as short
    • several times shorter == several times as short (the “as short” construction sounds clunky to me here in this case)

    As i write these out, i realize what you were trying to say: X times shorter is equivalent to X times as short for me, so equivalent that I didn’t realize when I was using one or the other.

    You are saying that for some people, the “X times shorter” construction doesn’t sound natural. I can respect that, but it doesn’t seem like a part of mainstream English to me at least.

    “Twice shorter” isn’t what anyone is talking about. That isn’t how you combine the words, at least to me.