[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