how do you 1/3 something
Say you have a collection of cookbooks and you take it upon yourself to cull some of them out. Now if I cut it in half then it is easy for me to explain this to someone by saying I halved my collection.
However lets say that I remove a third of my collection thus leaving two thirds of it. Do I then say I thirded it or did I Two thirds it. Do you describe what you removed or do you describe what you've retained?
However lets say that I remove a third of my collection thus leaving two thirds of it. Do I then say I thirded it or did I Two thirds it. Do you describe what you removed or do you describe what you've retained?
posted by The Information Officer at 4:56 PM
2 Comments:
what you got rid of...describe what you pitched, it's the purging that's important in the act of de-cluttering...
This is the kind of thing that linguists think about. It`s called semantics and pragmatics and it`s really interesting but tough going.
Dad
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