Re: OT: It's my birthday and I've got another guilt watch.

From: Paul Blay (ranma_at_saotome.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:40:24 -0000

"Bart Mathias" wrote ...
> Paul Blay wrote:
>> [...]
>> Now if somebody could go over the ways ages are counted to in Japanese
>> again maybe I'll get them straight this time.
>
> The other counts the calendar years you have been alive during.

>From . ? e.g. the day you're born you're 1$B:M(B then on 1st January you're 2$B:M(B
until on your birthday you reach 1$BK~G/Np(B which is the same as the Western
system?

> At
> least one day per year this $B?t$(G/(B figure will be one greater than $BK~$G(B.
> $B<7:MH>(B couldn't make any sense in this system.

This sort of stuff gives me a headache. o_@v

> I only know two. One is to count the completed 365 1/4-day years of
> one's life, pretty much a recent borrowing from the West, which is your
> $BK~G/Np(B (or just $BK~(B). I haven't noticed whether Japanese kids will say
> things like $B<7:MH>(B, getting in parts of not-yet-completed years or not.
> How does one say, I wonder, "I'm 69, going on 69 1/2" in Japanese?

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