[yieldcrv]

> The absolute percentage went down by 8, but who cares?

I do and that's why I wrote it

The only remaining mystery is which semantical variation of that would you and others accept. Fewer? No. Lower? No. Absolutely percentage? Well its not even clear if others would accept that, or find a different way to say you’re ironically dumb.

The purpose of language is to convey a shared concept. Whatever this conversation is has nothing to do with that.

[ALittleLight]

Typically you would say it's a drop of X percentage points, or just "points", or a decrease of Y percent. Using X instead of Y is simply wrong - whether it's wrong mathematically or verbally is philosophical.

[yieldcrv]

oh I see its about the use of the % sign/word instead of just number of points, I missed that’s what people were “aha!”-ing about

> whether it's wrong mathematically or verbally is philosophical.

got it. yeah I don't care that much as I think what was being conveyed was obvious, and everyone else understood that too