s is the sort of thing that engineers crucify fellow engineers for. You’d never hear an engineer or scientist (especially a physics guy) pop out with this sort of mistake, because if they did in front of other engineers/scientists, they’d be crucified immediately.
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On the contrary, it is quite common now to read things such as,”500 times smaller” or “500 percent less” on FR and some who post this nonsense identify themselves as engineers or math majors. I personally have been verbally abused on this forum at times because I protested against such nonsense. I have often been met with the standard attitude of,”You know what I mean”. I fail to see why I should know what someone means when they cannot be bothered to say what they mean.
Point ‘em out to me, and I’ll bring my whipping post.
Those are other locutions that make less than no sense. And no, “you know what I mean” is not acceptable.