Ah thanks for spelling it out for me. English isn’t my mother tongue, so for me both several times shorter and twice shorter felt somehow wrong. So I thought they were equally wrong. Thanks for explaining!

OK, either I don’t understand you or you don’t understand me, because that’s what I’m also saying?

Your example “twice as short” works.

The original comment wasn’t about your example.

The original comment was “several times shorter”.

As you used twice in place of several times, I also put twice in there to make the difference to yours more obvious.

Twice shorter isnt the same as twice as short. You talked in your first comment about something different than the other comments talked about. That is what I wanted to express.

This is about the Siege of Weinsberg.

That’s because you wrote something different than the other comment.

Twice as short != twice shorter

And the second version is just wrong.

You, because you apparently don’t know what Marx said.

Marx never said you get stuff for free.

Well fuck you for insinuating 2005 was 20 years ago. No need to be so hostile!