+224 People that say "Times it" instead of "Multiply it" are really irritating, Amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can't take it when people say that. It makes me cringe.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They always sound stupid doing it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or minus it! It's subtract, people!!!!!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Over your head and into that box.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ok I get it. But what does that mean? It has no relevance to my post.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The box, k516! The box! Over your head and into it!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What box?? What do you mean by "over my head and into it"??

by Anonymous 12 years ago

look around your screen and find it. "It" means "box"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What do you mean over my head and into it? And where's the box? Is this really obvious and I'm just being stupid? If it is...sorry

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ono

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Can you try to explain it better? I'm really confused about how this relates to my comment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Rectangle. Rounded edges. ono I give up. You must be trolling.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

actually the "minus" thing is also correct...it can be both "subtract" or "minus". Ten minus 3 is NOT stupid, but another way of saying it. Though "times it" sounds stupid, always has.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Ugh my 8th grade algebra teacher did that un

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've heard "plus it," but then again, I am from Alabama...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is especially irritating in a high level math class, even though I still hated it when I was in elementary school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah. Love the profile pic by the way. Did you lie :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I thought I was the only one. It makes me want to slap people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Especially when it's an honors math teacher.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know! Little kids is one thing, but people who are in highschool should know by now!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I will always say "times".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"And then you times 2 by 18, and then you plus 6". What are you, eight years old?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press: times/tʌɪmz/ ▶verb (timeses, timesing, timesed) informal multiply (a number). – origin late 20th cent.: use as a verb of times expressing multiplication. http://www.wordreference.com/de...n/times_square ''... when the denominator was ***timesed*** by three, the same had to be done to the numerator; and so on.'' — W. M. Roth, "Designing Communities", Kluwer Academic Publishers, p31, 1998 In the case of multi-storey buildings where the cost of the lower parts of external walls and stanchions is greater, the group considers it inappropriate to increase the ***timesing*** factor to walls, Skitmore and Vernon Marston, Cost Modelling, Taylor & Francis, p. 173, 1999 Calculation should be made as waste on the dimension paper and not mentally, and ***timesing*** should be done consistently." — Willis, et al, Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying, 11th ed, p33, 2011, Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex, UK

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thank you, Buzz Killington.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

don't forget "homage" idiotically as "ho-MAUZJ"...instead of the correct "HOM-ige".

by Anonymous 11 years ago