Can I have a whatever you are on.... I can assure you that in The US, in Europe and in Asia... a child is X days/weeks/months old then they are one year old on the anniversary of their birth, if you started at one then they would be 3 months old even before you'd had sex - probably where the pro lifers get their it's a living person argument!.
I've lived in the UK, US, Hong Kong, France, Spain, Italy, the former Yugoslavia and Turkey and never has someone been one at birth.. I visited Canada once and it could be anything there and could even vary by language! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: 01 December 2009 22:26 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Off-by-one Error At 09:06 2009-12-01, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] >Similarly Europeans start numbering at 1 for birthdays so that on the day >one is born, he is one-year old. We in the U.S. are more logical and start >numbering at 0 for birthdays. Works the same way in computer addressing >where numbering usually starts at 0 and one calculates the offset from >there. Europeans start the lifetime at about the start of manufacturing (gleam in father's eye), and NAers start when manufacturing is complete (scream in mother's throat). Since there is no warranty on humans, it is moot. We do not start at zero. We say some units. A child is never zero, but four months old or two weeks old or three days old or, if backed into a corner, newborn, but never zero. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
