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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Ali Chen who wrote (65032)7/13/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: Fred Fahmy   of 1581766
 
Ali,

<Now I understand. This is English. Thank you.>

I've always been told that this is a hard language to translate.

The longer this went on, the more convinced I was becoming that this had to be a problem in translating English phrases.

< How could I say correctly, for example, that the Moon is 81.3 times
lighter than Earth?>

Two ways. Most common would be to reverse the relationship and say the Earth is 81.3 times heavier than the earth. The second way is the small fraction as you suggested, i.e. the moon is 1/81.3 the mass of the Earth or 1/81.3 as heavy as the earth. This is usually more awkward unless the fraction is simple like 1/3, or 3/4, or 1/100.

<It is also truly amazing how you guys reduce everything to shopping discounts and percentage gains, especially in dollar amounts.>

These are every day things that most people can relate to.

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