Re: OT: It's my birthday and I've got another guilt watch.
From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 11/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:55:48 GMT
Sean Holland wrote:
> Anthony J. Bryant wrote:
>
>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What's even more fun is the fact that the Japanese say the period
>>> of human gestation is 10 months 10 days...
>>
>>
>> Atually, the whole thing is calendar specific. We tend to think in
>> terms of calendar months. When they talk about "ten months" they are
>> talking about ten four-week periods. Both of which are about the
>> same.
>>
>> Tony
>
> I had a couple of apparently reasonably educated women in a
> housewives' English conversation class at a community centre in
> Kashiwa remark that Japanese and gaijin have different gestation
> periods. They weren't talking about a different way of counting the
> time; they seemed to think the actual period was different. Well, I
> suppose it takes longer to make something superior.
Did you offer to test their theory?
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