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"spans 385,000 to 172,000 years ago (plus or minus about 50,000 years on either end)" do journalists now get paid by word?
by gcb0 9y ago
"spans 385,000 to 172,000 years ago (plus or minus about 50,000 years on either end)"
do journalists now get paid by word?
- Steuard 9y agoThis sounds like a perfectly natural description of the estimated date range to me. Is there some significantly more efficient way of phrasing it that I'm overlooking? (Without resorting to scientific ± notation, at least?)
- gkilmain 9y agoI'd be okay if we removed 'on either end'.
- mrkuchbhi 9y agoare you implying they should have said "spans 435,000 to 122,000 years ago" ?
- gcb0 9y agowhy not? if that is exactly what they are saying.