• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    By hyperbolic I mean that 4000% is likely not the actually correct specific number, but that it is a much higher number, just maybe not 4000%.

    Maybe its more like 12 or 13 or 18, compared to 10.

    Basically I am trying to agree with you and say that yes, it is substantially worse, but maybe not literally 4000% worse.

    If 100 is 100%, 4000% would be 4000.

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      8 hours ago

      Apologies, I’m not natively English so that might pose language and cultural understanding issues (additionally) 😁

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          4 hours ago

          Thanks, I found out that was the case whan I played mmorpg and assumed some bad English speakers were not native speaking, but they were. Interesting thing in fact.

          Still, some things are lost with specific wording or also culturally - worst of all are the things that seem identical but are different (not the average false friends stuff).