kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前Did you know Taylor Swift was named after Albert Einstein?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squareDid you know Taylor Swift was named after Albert Einstein?kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前message-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSemperverus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·7 个月前“Yeah, a 110 years after.” reads as “Yeah, a one hundred and ten years after.” When you write a number like 100, you always say or expand out the full name of it, like “one hundred,” never the place denotation by itself, like “hundred.”
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 个月前man even with this explanation I’m not dad enough to understand the joke
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 个月前She was named a hundred and ten years after Einstein was named, in a temporal sense rather than a transitive one.
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 个月前ooo I get it now, was taking the comment too subjective instead of litteral
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 个月前Maybe you do. I read it as intended.
“Yeah, a 110 years after.” reads as “Yeah, a one hundred and ten years after.”
When you write a number like 100, you always say or expand out the full name of it, like “one hundred,” never the place denotation by itself, like “hundred.”
man even with this explanation I’m not dad enough to understand the joke
She was named a hundred and ten years after Einstein was named, in a temporal sense rather than a transitive one.
ooo I get it now, was taking the comment too subjective instead of litteral
Maybe you do.
I read it as intended.