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techgoddess
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I can totally lick my nose....my tongue is extremely long....lol.

You have to count to one thousand before the letter a is used.


Not if you say, as almost everybody does, "one hundred and one".


That would be an incorrect way to express the number 101, as the word "and" indicates a decimal point. Technically one should say "one hundred one".
techgoddess
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Stupid Facts

There are 230 joints in the human body.

The average human head weighs about eight pounds.

The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't let his drivers make left turns.

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water.

The metal band that connects the pencil eraser to the end of the pencil is called a Ferrule.

The little piece of cartilage that sticks out at the front side of your ear is called the Tragus.

The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes.

There are 104 stitches on a baseball.

A boomerang will return to the thrower even in space.

The top of the Empire State building was built to anchor blimps.
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I can totally lick my nose....my tongue is extremely long....lol.

You have to count to one thousand before the letter a is used.


Not if you say, as almost everybody does, "one hundred and one".


That would be an incorrect way to express the number 101, as the word "and" indicates a decimal point. Technically one should say "one hundred one".


The 'and' indicates a decimal place specifically when dealing with money, yes. And for some reason most people will say "one hundred one dollars and seventeen cents." When a number contains a decimal but does not refer to money, most people will say "point" rather than "and": "one hundred and one point one seven" rather than "one hundred one and seventeen hundredths."

As to being "incorrect," that would depend whether you consider yourself to belong to the descriptivist or prescriptivist school of linguistic studies, wouldn't it?
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The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands:

You have to count to one thousand before the letter a is used.
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A) I didn't bring up the irrelevant decimal point

2) The decimal, if not explicitly given, is always implied

iii) Thank you. Yes, the fact still stands that most people will say "one hundred and one."
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And just in case you don't take either the BBC or the one hundred and first Airborne Division seriously:








Most people, including the BBC, the US Army, and major media outlets say "one hundred and one." You do not need to count to one thousand to find the letter "a".
techgoddess
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Common usage doesn't mean something is correct.
Unfortunately when people mispronounce or misuse a word or phrase, it worms its way into acceptable usage.
As a former math teacher, I can tell you that the word "and" when spoken or written as part of a number does indeed indicate a decimal point.
So technically you must count to one thousand before an "a" appears.
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And as a student of language, I can assure you that unless you adhere to the prescriptivist school - and when it comes to language I do not - that common usage by native speakers does indeed mean something is correct.

Words "worm themselves" into acceptable usage, and language evolves, and what was not acceptable at one time eventually becomes acceptable; words that were commonly used become so uncommon that no one knows what they mean; a word may remain but the meaning attached to it may evolve.

Now, of you're a prescriptive linguist, then that's fine. All that means is that you and I have an ontological disagreement. It happens. My question to you, though, is what determines acceptability, if not common usage?

In your math book the word "and" may indicate a decimal point. And that is fine; when reading your math book, one ought to keep in mind the specified meaning of that word. Many scholarly articles on all sorts of topics use definitions that are not necessarily part of common usage. In the real world, the word "and" in a number does not always indicate a decimal place. No one listening to the Disney commercial would believe that it is for the movie "100.1 Dalmations." No one listening to that BBC broadcast would believe the newscaster was referring to the "100.1st Airborne." Are you telling us that you call the movie "One Hundred One Dalmations" with no "and"?

Words and phrases "mean" nothing aside from what the receiver makes of them. Meaning is not permanent, but rather it evolves and flexes and shifts over time and across contexts. To say that the language in common usage is incorrect denies the reality that language is a social process that derives any meaning only intersubjectively. There is no unerring, inflexible authority on what language is correct. Even prescriptivist scholars acknowledge this to a certain point in the fact that style guides and dictionaries are regularly updated and modified and reissued. And when they are revised, they are revised to reflect common usage, tacitly recognising common usage as the source of authority.

So, technically, the letter "a" appears in the number "one hundred and one".
techgoddess
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Hi Kat,
Good to hear from you! I hope this information is what you were looking for. Stop by sometime and we will have lunch!

For numbers bigger than 100, we don't say the word "and." Everybody does, including the famous Disney movie about the dogs, but it's not correct. For example, the number 101 is written "one hundred one." The number 736 is written "seven hundred thirty-six." Notice there is no hyphen in between the number of hundreds and the word "hundred," but there is between the thirty and the six. Again, there is no "and."

The reason why we don't write or say "and" in those numbers is because we use the word "and" to imply a decimal point. For example, although we could say 7.2 as "seven point two," the proper way to say or write this number is "seven and two tenths." We use the "and" to mean the decimal point. Another example is 234.79, which we would write as "two hundred thirty-four and seventy-nine hundredths."

All my best,
Asa


This was the reply I got from a friend of mine who is an English professor. So it seems we will just have to agree to disagree Durrasch.
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A middle aged woman is viewing her naked body in the mirror of her bedroom whilst her husband is in bed reading a book.
"God I look old," she said: " flabby belly, cellulite all over my legs and my breasts droop ... not to mention the wrinkles on my face." She looks towards her husnand and asks for reassurance.
" Pay me a compliment will you .. for God's sake."
The husband looks up from his book, thinks a moment and says:
"Your eyesight is perfect my love."
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This is a joke not an interesting or amusing fact.
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This was the reply I got from a friend of mine who is an English professor.


Right on, baby!

The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands.
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This was the reply I got from a friend of mine who is an English professor. So it seems we will just have to agree to disagree Durrasch.


Alright, we can indeed agree to disagree. But just for the record, a linguistics professor friend of mine tells me that a commonly-held view in the field is that anything which is used normally by native speakers cannot be considered incorrect. It may be non-standard, but it is not incorrect. And when I asked him to spell out for me how he would say the number 101, he said "depending on the context, either 'one oh one' or 'a hundred and one'".
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This was the reply I got from a friend of mine who is an English professor.


Right on, baby!

The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands.


Have you ever had an original thought all on your own, or is everything you say just a verbal circle jerk?
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This was the reply I got from a friend of mine who is an English professor.


Right on, baby!

The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands.


Have you ever had an original thought all on your own, or is everything you say just a verbal circle jerk?


Dont go there Durrasch! Crash and burn, dude crash and burn!
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Alright, we can indeed agree to disagree. But just for the record, a linguistics professor friend of mine tells me that a commonly-held view in the field is that anything which is used normally by native speakers cannot be considered incorrect. It may be non-standard, but it is not incorrect. And when I asked him to spell out for me how he would say the number 101, he said "depending on the context, either 'one oh one' or 'a hundred and one'".


It just doesn't sound right without the "and" in there.
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I guess the person who calls people "a cunt" in his av didn't hear me the first few times, regarding my "original thought".

The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands.
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This is suppose to be a thread of amusing things so lets get back to the topic.....

The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick". Give it a try and see for yourself.
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Sunlight doesn't kill or really harm trolls, but they still don't like it. The bright light tend to hurt their eyes, that are more used to the dark of underground caves and their skin burns easily.
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.



Ouch
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That's hard enough to even THINK about saying, let alone saying it, Zaf-Attack.
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.


Serious? Its a good thing I chew them, then throw them away...
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I guess the person who calls people "a cunt" in his av didn't hear me the first few times, regarding my "original thought".

The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands.


Piggybacking on Tech, who was doing quite well on her own at making a valid argument without your little "Yeah... what she said!" pat on her back, is about as original as making the same... I guess you call it a point... what is it, three times now?

And, as I said the first time you posted this, if a decimal is not explicitly stated, it is implied. It is implied that 101 is actually 101.0

And my avatar isn't aimed at everyone Rocco, just a select few of you. But don't worry, dude. Jesus loves you more than anyone.
techgoddess
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I guess the person who calls people "a cunt" in his av didn't hear me the first few times, regarding my "original thought".

The number given was "101". No decimal was given or implied, so the fact still stands.


Piggybacking on Tech, who was doing quite well on her own at making a valid argument without your little "Yeah... what she said!" pat on her back, is about as original as making the same... I guess you call it a point... what is it, three times now?

And, as I said the first time you posted this, if a decimal is not explicitly stated, it is implied. It is implied that 101 is actually 101.0

And my avatar isn't aimed at everyone Rocco, just a select few of you. But don't worry, dude. Jesus loves you more than anyone.


Wonders if you saw Zafia's request that we get back on track with the fun useless facts.

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

BTW....101.0 would be read one hundred one and zero tenths...in case you wondered...
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Wonders whether the reluctant respect he had for your ability to make an argument was misplaced after all, given the incredible hypocrisy of starting with:

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Wonders if you saw Zafia's request that we get back on track with the fun useless facts.


and ending with:

BTW....101.0 would be read one hundred one and zero tenths...in case you wondered...



Godwin's Law states that an an internet debate/discussion continues, the probability of someone making a Nazi/Hitler analogy approaches one.
techgoddess
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Here's a dozen useless facts:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
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Wonders whether the reluctant respect he had for your ability to make an argument was misplaced after all, given the incredible hypocrisy of starting with:

Quote by techgoddess
Wonders if you saw Zafia's request that we get back on track with the fun useless facts.


and ending with:

BTW....101.0 would be read one hundred one and zero tenths...in case you wondered...



Godwin's Law states that an an internet debate/discussion continues, the probability of someone making a Nazi/Hitler analogy approaches one.


I find this comment extremely offensive and I am insulted beyond measure. I did not attack you in such a horrendous way. You may think you are funny, but I think your reference to Nazi/Hitler is crossing the line and extremely vulgar.
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I find this comment extremely offensive and I am insulted beyond measure. I did not attack you in such a horrendous way. You may think you are funny, but I think your reference to Nazi/Hitler is crossing the line and extremely vulgar.



Tech, I think the Hitler comment references a post by Chefkathleen in this thread:

http://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_postst5601p2_Guns-Yaaay.aspx