: Literacy (was: IBM Sued)
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Culture. An elderly woman on a bus once asked me the time.
Six fifty.
Six fifteen?
(Enunciating clearly) No, six fifty!
(Incomprehension; I tried showing her my digital watch)
I can't read that!
Mickey's big hand is on the ten
Correct, Dutch and German do it that way.
I never regarded as keen to see time pass by, but more as halfway
towards 8 o'clock. This could both be interpreted, comparable to the
glass either being half full or half empty, as only just halfway or
already halfway. I feel it as the last.
Kees.
Chris
In a recent note, Chris Mason said:
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:05:15 +0100
Regarding your difficulty with the lady. There are European languages - of a
generally Teutonic persuasion I believe - where the speakers are so keen to
see time pass that they anticipate the approaching hour
Not R.S. but R.B. and not Slavic but some Hungarian and (based on
what I know from TV) Austrian info: they use a quarter [of]
eight as well when meaning 7:15, and three quarters [of] eight)
means 7:45. (Note: the [of] part is my addition for readability)
While here in the more or less German
On 20 Feb 2007 04:34:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vernooy,
C.P. - SPLXM) wrote:
Correct, Dutch and German do it that way.
I never regarded as keen to see time pass by, but more as halfway
towards 8 o'clock. This could both be interpreted, comparable to the
glass either being half full or half
In southern Germany too: three quarters [of] eight = 7.45
(in German: dreiviertel acht). Even people from northern Germany
have problems with that, but to me it sounds quite logically,
because I grew up with it.
Regards
Bernd
Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 14:25 schrieben Sie:
Not R.S. but
In a recent note, Rick Fochtman said:
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:09:55 -0600
Not to mention the intellectual paralytics coming from our public and
private schools. Like a McDonalds clerk here that doesn't know half a
dozen from six chicken McNuggets!
A truly sorry state of
Yes, I would say it is. A dozen eggs, a dozen doughnuts, etc.
snip
But is dozen sufficiently prevalant that that it's necessarily
considered part of literacy?
/snip
Jon
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Yes, I would say it is. A dozen eggs, a dozen doughnuts, etc.
But those entities usually come in a single container, with no explicit
connection between the term dozen and the quantity 12.
Consider a box
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