On Sat 30 Apr 2011 at 23:37:01 -, Jordi Mas wrote:
> ** Changed in: gbrainy (Ubuntu)
>Status: New => Invalid
Oh come on! At least consult a linguist!
And: if you really think the one expression is equivalent to the other,
you should have no problem using the other. At least it will ma
** Changed in: gbrainy (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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On Sat 30 Apr 2011 at 17:02:26 -, Jordi Mas wrote:
> > It is not grammatical. "Three times older than his son"?
> > You can be "5 years older than his son", but "three times" is not some
> > quantity, it is simply incomplete.
>
> If you have a number X, 3 times that number is 3x.
Yes. Please
> It is not grammatical. "Three times older than his son"?
> You can be "5 years older than his son", but "three times" is not some
> quantity, it is simply incomplete.
If you have a number X, 3 times that number is 3x.
It is not incomplete, depends on another variable.
>The only thing it could
On Sat 30 Apr 2011 at 16:05:35 -, Jordi Mas wrote:
> If you Google the sentence "times older than his son" you have more than
> 26.000 results, many of them on math sites.
You know just as well as I do, that "many people do it" doesn't make it
right :-) "Billions of flies eat shit, so we must
Thanks for your bug report
If you Google the sentence "times older than his son" you have more than
26.000 results, many of them on math sites.
How 'John was 3 times older than his son.' is different from '"John was
3 times AS OLD AS his son" in terms of meaning? Or the current sentence
is broke
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