clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Warp schrieb:

> >> If you say "the room is ten feet square", you're saying the room is a square 
> >> ten feet on a side. Hence, 100 square feet.
> > 
> >   Of course such an expression is quite incorrect, technically speaking.
> > Squares cannot be measured in feet or meters. The *sides* of the squares can.

> It is only incorrect if you're in nitpicking mode and the speaker didn't 
> explicitly define the expression.

  It's not nitpicking if the expression cannot be easily understood.

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                                                          - Warp

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