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Originally posted by Arun Kumar:
what do you call 3/4th in english:
1/4=quater:
1/2=half:
what is 3/4=??
Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
You seriously don't know things like that?
Originally posted by Arun Kumar:
isnt there a one word for that?
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Is there one word for that in your first language (which is...?) That's interesting. How about other fractions like 2/3, 3/5, 4/5?
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Is there one word for that in your first language (which is...?) That's interesting. How about other fractions like 2/3, 3/5, 4/5?
Originally posted by Devesh H Rao:
5/2 = "adhai"
If I were to say "one half" in my native tongue it would actually mean 1.5.
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Originally posted by Devesh H Rao:
1/4 = "sawa"
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Originally posted by Devesh H Rao:
1/4 = "sawa"
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Originally posted by fred Joly:
Here in France , when you go to a bar and ask "un demi" (1/2),
you get 1/4 litre of beer. How strange....
If you ask for "un quart" (1/4) , you usually get ...
No it's not 12,5 cl of beer! You get 25 cl of red wine.
Sometimes instead of saying "I would like 6 eggs", you say
"I would like une demi douzaine" wich is really "half of twelfe".
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Originally posted by fred Joly:
Here in France , when you go to a bar and ask "un demi" (1/2),
you get 1/4 litre of beer. How strange....
If you ask for "un quart" (1/4) , you usually get ...
No it's not 12,5 cl of beer! You get 25 cl of red wine.
Sometimes instead of saying "I would like 6 eggs", you say
"I would like une demi douzaine" wich is really "half of twelfe".
Originally posted by R K Parulekar:
But again, 5/4 actually means "sawwa ek", likewise, 9/4 means "sawwa don", 13/4 = "sawwa teen" etc
[ September 24, 2006: Message edited by: R K Parulekar ]
Originally posted by Ben Souther:
Wow, a single word for 5/2.
Does this have to do with your monetary system?
I can't picture that fraction being common enough to warrent it's own word.
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Now that I think about it: I already knew about a "lakh", which means (right?) 100,000. So are there words for other sort of large round numbers too, more than in English? Are there special words for (say) 500, or 5000?
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Devesh --
Yes, but I couldn't recall the word before. Thanks.
So is there a word for "million?" In English, we have no special word for a lakh (one tenth of a million) or a crore (ten million).
Lynnette: that's interesting. Where did this happen? Anyplace I've lived in the States, "one thousand one hundred" would be understood correctly. Where in the world are you?
[ September 24, 2006: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Devesh --
Yes, but I couldn't recall the word before. Thanks.
So is there a word for "million?" In English, we have no special word for a lakh (one tenth of a million) or a crore (ten million).
[ September 24, 2006: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]
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Originally posted by Manish Hatwalne:
In olden times (my parents generation & grandfather's generation) there were "autki" tables (don't know what is it called in any other language besides Marathi) - which are actually tables for these fractions (1/4, 1/2, 3/4) just like tables for integers 2,3,4 etc. And school children learnt them as young kids -- often that made many of them very sharp & proficient in airthmetic! My grandpa & even dad could come up with exact bill amount even before he'd approach billing counter.
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Originally posted by R K Singh:
Hi Devesh,
10000000000000000 = Dus Maha Shankh
Originally posted by Manish Hatwalne:
In olden times (my parents generation & grandfather's generation) there were "autki" tables (don't know what is it called in any other language besides Marathi) - which are actually tables for these fractions (1/4, 1/2, 3/4) just like tables for integers 2,3,4 etc. And school children learnt them as young kids -- often that made many of them very sharp & proficient in airthmetic! My grandpa & even dad could come up with exact bill amount even before he'd approach billing counter.
- Manish
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Originally posted by Devesh H Rao:
MR R K Parulekar... you from around mumbai...?
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Originally posted by Marcus Green:
One of the things that surprises me about English is that there are not more specific terms for family relationships, thus to specify a grandparents link you must add maternal or paternal, and the term cousin covers several different possibilities.
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Originally posted by Ben Souther:
Wow, a single word for 5/2.
Does this have to do with your monetary system?
I can't picture that fraction being common enough to warrent it's own word.
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