Re:The Best iPhone
by idle_zealot on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:59PM
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Your English is generally quite good. The one thing I'll note is that I've not seen native speakers use notation like "+10 years" in the context you do. Generally we'd write that as "10+ years" read as "ten-plus years" or ">10 years" read as "over ten years".
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Thanks for the tip! I guess I use “+10 years” because of how we say in Portuguese (“mais de 10 anos”, as the “more than” comes first than the “10 years”).
I suppose more people would read ">10 years" as "more than 10 years"?
How would you interpret “+/- 10 years”?
As a margin of error.
"this tree was planted 200 years ago, +/- 10 years" -> the tree was planted between 190 and 210 years ago.
"this comet will next be seen in 100 years, +/- 10" -> The comet will visible between 90 and 110 years from now.
Yeah, interesting. In The Netherlands it is commonly used to mean "more or less", or "approximately", unless it is used in formulas.
Re:The Best iPhone
by davidbanham on Friday July 29, 2022 @09:10AM
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For “approximately 10 years” I would note it as ~10. Native Australian English speaker.
In English, "give or take".
+10 years could be interpreted as 10 years in the future, and makes perfect sense in that context, but -10 years for the past seems weird. I'm not sure why.
Re:The Best iPhone
by wingerlang on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:39AM
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I don’t think they are comparable really.
10+ years means over ten years.
+/- 10 years is an addition/subtraction and making a range.