Severus_Snape@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoThis is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dyinglemmy.worldimagemessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1206arrow-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-22 months agomessage-square88linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months 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-up1·2 months 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