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Old 10-16-2012, 12:59 AM
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"A thousand percent!" or any variation of it really irritates me. "When I try something I always give it a hundred and ten percent."

Since when is 100% insufficient?
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Old 10-16-2012, 02:00 AM
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"When I try something I always give it a hundred and ten percent."
On that note, I was taught that saying "and" in math denotes a decimal. Therefore, it peeves me when people throw "and" into a number. Leslie Anne, unless those people want you to give 100.10 percent, tell them to go somewhere!
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Old 10-16-2012, 10:03 AM
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Long live the Oxford Comma! http://behlerblog.com/2012/01/24/the...omma-nuf-said/

On that note, I was taught that saying "and" in math denotes a decimal. Therefore, it peeves me when people throw "and" into a number. Leslie Anne, unless those people want you to give 100.10 percent, tell them to go somewhere!
Isn't this technically 100.(point) 10 percent, or just a shade over 100 percent? It doesn't read like it's 110 percent.

If this drives you crazy, you should see my copy when I'm speechwriting and have to cite a number for my speaker. "XYZ Foundation raised more than 61-point-7-million-dollars in Fiscal Year ...."

Odd to read (and write), but it makes it flow during delivery.
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Old 10-16-2012, 01:35 PM
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Isn't this technically 100.(point) 10 percent, or just a shade over 100 percent? It doesn't read like it's 110 percent.
That was my (decimal) point. ba-dum-chh
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