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FumbleFingers
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LangaugeLanguage has very little to do with logic.

If the meaning is clear - and I think it is, here - what else matters?

I don't think I'd say ten times fewer, but I understand what people mean by it, and (I think) why they say it that way: they're used to expressing quantities by multiples ten times bigger, ten times as quickly. Would you have the same objection to ten times slower?

Langauge has very little to do with logic.

If the meaning is clear - and I think it is, here - what else matters?

I don't think I'd say ten times fewer, but I understand what people mean by it, and (I think) why they say it that way: they're used to expressing quantities by multiples ten times bigger, ten times as quickly. Would you have the same objection to ten times slower?

Language has very little to do with logic.

If the meaning is clear - and I think it is, here - what else matters?

I don't think I'd say ten times fewer, but I understand what people mean by it, and (I think) why they say it that way: they're used to expressing quantities by multiples ten times bigger, ten times as quickly. Would you have the same objection to ten times slower?

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Colin Fine
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Langauge has very little to do with logic.

If the meaning is clear - and I think it is, here - what else matters?

I don't think I'd say ten times fewer, but I understand what people mean by it, and (I think) why they say it that way: they're used to expressing quantities by multiples ten times bigger, ten times as quickly. Would you have the same objection to ten times slower?