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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Andreas Johansson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Larry Sulky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> [snip]
>> And yes, four-fifths times smaller would indeed mean five-fourths times
>> bigger. Neither of which are we accustomed to saying in English... but we
>> might well say "half as unhappy" and be understood to mean the same thing as
>> "twice as happy".
>
> Would we?
>
> I'm a L2 speaker, but I would spontaneously interpret "half as
> unhappy" as meaning half as far below some reference level of
> contentment, while "twice as happy" means twice as high over same.
>
> (Cf how "half as deep" doesn't equal "twice as high".)
I'm gonna have to agree with that.
as for larry's 6 times larger. That's typically interpreted to be 600%
the size of the original. If we use that logic for smaller we've got
an item that -600% the size of the original which would be taking up
less than no space. So that doesn't work either. But, if you have an
intermediate reference object (as i originally suggested but no-one
ever uses) you COULD have something be the difference of the two times
six. So you could, theoretically have something 600% of the delta
smaller.
-Kate
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