Severus_Snape@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 days agoThis is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dyinglemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1500arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1484arrow-down1external-linkThis 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-28 days agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 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-23 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
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