Yeah, a 110 years after.

  • Semperverus@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    “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.”

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      3 hours ago

      man even with this explanation I’m not dad enough to understand the joke

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        2 hours ago

        She was named a hundred and ten years after Einstein was named, in a temporal sense rather than a transitive one.

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          2 hours ago

          ooo I get it now, was taking the comment too subjective instead of litteral

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    20 hours ago

    Did you know that comedian Albert Brooks was born “Albert Einstein” and changed the last name for Hollywood?

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    20 hours ago

    It really doesn’t feel like they should be that far apart, but it’s true, I checked. I blame it on getting old.