Didn't downvote or anything, but come on .. we all know what he meant. This thread is not the place for a "a great learning opportunity about decimal separators and non-native speakers".
Stopping someone mid conversation to correct grammar might be rude or whatever in person, mainly due to the "live" nature of in-person conversation. In a forum-like conversation however; it seems quite the opposite to me.
Purely subjective, of course.
And yes, I am adding to the noise; far too late now. How do you feel about car part quality?
Hopefully if those cheaper 3D metal printers linked to last week[1] become a reality, it might go up?
The problem is that an hour investment for a 10% increase in productivity would be a great thing. 10,000% is unvarnished hyperbole, so my brain interpreted as the reasonable statement.
Sure, eventually. But I had to parse that sentence three times to figure out whether he meant 10% or 10,000%. I'm a non-native speaker from Germany myself so I'm doubly careful about reading commas and periods in figures like that correctly. Adding extra decimals for emphasis isn't exactly uncommon.
I only expanded my comment because of the downvotes. I actually made sure to keep it short and explicitly mark it as "nitpicky" (i.e. unimportant to the greater discussion) exactly for the reason you state.
Likewise. Actually 10% is more logical than 10000%, which would be 100 fold... and that's unrealistic. I reread it again and it was really 10000%.
Having your mistake corrected can be educational even when you were understood. In the future, inanother context, the same mistake could result in confusion.