• Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    What is “five times shorter?” Is that one fifth as long? We can’t really measure the shortness of a thing, only its length.

    Sorry, it’s a pet peeve of mine.

    • Grass@geddit.social
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      1 year ago

      I would have commented just this and nothing else if you weren’t already doing god’s work.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The shortness of a thing is an aspect of its length. Your comment makes no sense. Five times shorter means that you can play Mirage five times in the same time it takes to play Valhalla once. I’m pedantic as hell but this comes off to me as fake pedantry.