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TIL score = 20
by ithkuil 8y ago
TIL score = 20
- IshKebab 8y agoYeah I wouldn't call 48 young. Btw "4 score and 10" is still basically how the French say 90.
- maximp 8y ago> Yeah I wouldn't call 48 young I read this as sarcastic/self-deprecating humor
- shadowfaxRodeo 8y agoI was just about to go to bed, when I had the thought—did i write two score? and sure enough, i did. I meant one. I'm one score and eight.
- mxuribe 8y agoYeah, the first I learned of the term "score" was (via grade school social studies/history class) from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: ""Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent..."