Significant decrease in Materials from Gathering Favors - Patch 3.07

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The reality is that this only applies to those that don't understand English well enough. As Roth mentioned above and others have explained, English isnt as ambiguous in this case as people in this thread make it out to be.
It's simply some people arguing that their lack of English understanding means ''English is ambiguous''
''to'' and ''by'' mean different things. It is that simple. This is basic English. My earlier argument was not an insult as apparently it seems to be taken. This level of English is just that basic.

The English words themselves are basic, yes, but if you had actually attended college as you had stated you did in an earlier post, I'd expect you not to ignore a reference, and the point of even having them. In said reference, even people with advanced degrees in math agree that the particular phrase used is ambiguous with respect to Math, and should be avoided at all costs because of the duality of the meaning when you start trying to interpret them into Mathematical terms.

''you fill a glass to full''
''you fill a glass by filling it with water''
The different meaning of ''to'' and ''by'' can be infered by the different use of grammar in the two sentences.
''The yield of Favor items has been increased to 300% of the old value''
And everything after ''to 300%'' isn't even needed either.

omitting the part after the "to 300%" is exactly what would make it ambiguous.

It wasnt a demeaning comment. Perhaps you felt that it was, but it truly is basic English.
It was about basic math because you claimed the math used to explain the English used was incorrect.
Again, I also dont need to use links to disapprove you are wrong, because the math also is very basic. Children are taught this level of math (the different between + and x) in their first year of math.
So having (presumably) adult people who regularly engage in forum discussions argue about this is baffling.
Again, perhaps I'm biased since I never had much issues learning English myself..so I tend to forget the difficulties in learning another language. So perhaps the English isn't as basic as I'm making it to be, but more intermediate.

Perhaps you don't understand basic English if you don't know when you are effectively calling someone an idiot or a child by saying that their education amounts to no less than what children are taught in their first years of English or Math. I suggest you go and review, and English is my first language, thank you very much.