Re: OT: It's my birthday and I've got another guilt watch.
From: Sean Holland (seanpantsholland_at_telus.pants.net)
Date: 11/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:09:41 GMT
necoandjeff wrote:
> Sean Holland wrote:
>
>>Anthony J. Bryant wrote:
>>
>>
>>>necoandjeff wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>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?
Uh, I don't want to talk about it.
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