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I meant half a waking day, cperciva. When someone says "I spent half a day trying to find that bug," they don't mean 12 hours.
by pg 16y ago
I meant half a waking day, cperciva. When someone says "I spent half a day trying to find that bug," they don't mean 12 hours.
- StavrosK 16y agoSometimes we do :(
- cperciva 16y agoI meant half a waking day, cperciva. Huh. That never occurred to me as an interpretation. I wonder if this is a British vs. American vs. Canadian English issue, or if I'm just slower than usual today.
- ghshephard 16y agoI'm from British Columbia originally, Half a Day (in the dinner context) is 12 Hours to me. I'll do a sample of the Indians, Canadians, and Americans in the office and get back to you. This may be another of those "organ-eye-zation" versus "organ-eh-zation" things that pop up form time to time.
- lincolnq 16y agoAmerican here. To claim that something takes me half a day, I would usually interpret that as half a working day, so 4-5 hours. I brew beer, and I tell people that "beer brewing takes a full day" -- if I start brewing at 8:30 then I get done before 5. Yeah I could do some other stuff afterwards. Oh, and it's "organ-eh-zation" through and through. :)
- stevefarnworth 16y agoI have to say I agree with cperciva, the first thing that jumped to my mind was that the meals must start at 12/1pm and finish at a "normal" time for a semi-formal dinner of about 12/1am.