If there is one (1) thing I HATE, yea, two (2) that are an abomination, it is that group of three or four (3 or 4) MILLION (1,000,000) people that need be beaten by ten (10) baseball bats at once. Do they think we can read numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…), but not words? Are they missing half (1/2) of their brain? I mean, if a person can’t read words, how far do you imagine they will get with numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…)?
I have read this two (2) times and still do not get the peevy point! ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
I’m laughing at Cojak’s joke, but I did actually have to read it 2 (two) times, myself.I actually like the reinforcement. Whenever I see a very large number, I have to count in groups of 3 (three) from the right to determine if it’s a million (1,000,000) or what-have-you. Also, if one (1 person in general)makes a typo and has one (1) letter off in a word, we can usually figure it out from context, but if one (1) digit is off in a number, we’re sunk unless we have that parenthetical explanation. The other thing is that, when spoken, million (1,000,000) and billion (1,000,000,000) are not very distinct from one (1) another. Ha, that last
It’s actually against Acts-celerate policy, but it’s also just not masculine to do it or to point out that someone else has done it.
It’s folks like you making excuses for the other seven (7) billion (1,000,000,000) people in the world for doing things this way.Another thing, too (2…wait a minute), is that when you have to have numbers (1,2, 3,4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9….) to reinforce your understanding, you will likely need WORDS to reinforce your math (+, -, x, /), and then everything becomes a messy word problem (Bonnie).
Words do reinforce math. No truer words were spoken. When you know that of means times (x), it makes word problems a lot simpler.Is means equals (=).What means a variable (n).For example, twenty-five (25) IS WHAT percent OF seventy-five (75)?25 = N% x 75
Aaron, you’re gonna love this. I read a while back about a culture that doesn’t have numbers. Small quantities are called one or two. Beyond that, they just say many.www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714111940.htmSo, maybe subtract three hundred (300) from the seven billion (7,000,000,000) other people in the world who are putting numbers in parentheses.
Re: How does "of" mean times?
Well, I wouldn’t use of there. I would just say 144, lol (if I could remember it). I was thinking more of the example I used above.
Habitually late peoplePeople who clip their nails are in churchStarting all services local or state latePeople who pass me and slow downStopping at SAMs Club sample tables and talking endlessly to the server. MUNCH AND MOVE!!!!!I will probably think of others late________________
I have just graded your post for the accuracy of pet peeves;
I have just graded your post for the accuracy of pet peeves;A+++++++++ ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
OK, if ya really wanna know, here is some a OTCP’s pet peeves:1. Folk with COG credentials but WOF beliefs/doctrines/practices. If ya gonna be a woffie, surrender ya credentials and connect with Copeland.2. Unethical preachers claimin academic credentials they ain’t got. They is plenty a other stuff to lie about, why lie about that?3. Puttin chewin gum under the pew after ya chew it. If ya gonna put it there, leave it in the wrapper so somebody else can chew it. 4. Transcribed sermons where 3/4 of what was said was Somebody slap ya neighbor an say ‘the devil is under my feet’ or ‘can’t git no help up in here.’5. Preachers who yell Let me tell you a THING. What is a THING?6. Singers gittin up to sing an sayin, Yall pray fer me, I ain’t had time to practice. Well set down then, cause ya shore had time to watch Honey Boo Boo or Greenlief.7. The SYSTEM. What is the SYSTEM?8. White preachers goin into ethnic mode when they start preachin. You don’t talk like at at Wal Mart, so why preach like at?9. Preachers in skinny jeans, prancin, dancin, light loaferin, an makin a mockery a the ministry.
From OTCP, it is hard to believe you on 1 & 2. Never knew youthought that way Now as to 3, wrappers would have been good, but I still found some that still had some sugar in them, unwrapped!Now 4,5,8,9,10 I can say AMEN________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Ole Timer, I’ve often heard the phrase, Let me tell you a thing or two. I don’t know that I’ve heard preachers say it, though. Usually the thing or two that they are going to tell you does follow, so I would assume preachers follow up as well.
Thanks Bonnie, that was keeping me awake also. ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/