Grammar 101

[Teej]

setup / set up and workout / work out, etc.

One word - noun. Two words - verb.

"I set up my new system recently. Pretty decent setup." Good.

"LD hasn't setup FC2 on his system yet." Bad.

Also, despite common usage "times more than" is ambiguous enough that it shouldn't be used. Technically, "5 times more than" (or "5 times faster than"...) would mean _6_ times as much as (or as fast as) the reference sample.

Put it this way...if Joe has a dollar and Tim gives him two more, Tim has given Joe two times as much as he had. Joe now has two times more...or three times as much as he had before.

Don't even start with "times smaller" or "times less than"

[Dimebag]

Jeezus, after doing a 14 hr shift I'm having trouble wrapping my head around that times more than thing, I'll take your word for it. There is a lot of ambiguity in the English language that can only be solved by situational factors. If it was a car you would have sent it to the heap years ago, so unreliable.

[Beaker]

I believe the "times more than" must have stemmed from something a little like "times, more than."

5 times, more than it was. I'm not sure it's necessarily incorrect. (Haven't done my homework, however.)

[Frazer]

Wow, first time I actually learn something on/at/of? this forum!

[Beaker]

From!

[Frazer]

Dang!