Yes I understand what it means: m.s^-2 or kg.m^-3 are identical to m/s^2 or kg/m^3. All I was saying is that the former is a slightly cack-handed way of expressing it (IMHO) and one which has to be translated back again if you are going to refer to it in spoken form. But it does make it easier to check that powers of units match throughout an equation.