Re: can Roger take Del Potro?

Voice of Reason wrote:
On Jan 26, 2:14 pm, Sakari Lund <sakari.l...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:55:15 +0100, "*skriptis"



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On Jan 26, 9:07 am, "*skriptis" <skrip...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jan 26, 11:48 am, Scott <scott...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yes, but the age difference is key. At 28, it takes longer for Roger
to recover from his matches than the Del Potro kid.
Roger is actually 27 and won't be 28 for more than half a year, (Aug.
8, 2009).
***
2009 -1981 = 28.
You are a god damn retard.
And you're not at peace with your own age, you're that type of guy who would
say he's 49 even though his birthday is within a week.
Pathetic
Well, that's how it is. You are 49 until you turn 50. I am really
surprised if you call that differently in your part of the world, but
if you say so...

I hate to say it - but skriptis is kind of right. In some parts of
the world, age is said as "running" rather than the traditional
western "completed".

4 years old, in some parts of the world, could mean - 4 years running
OR 4 years completed.

4 years running means you are in the fourth year of your life. 4
years completed means you completed the fourth year of your life.

If you think about it - there is no real reason save societal norms to
use one system over the other. I can understand how a baby that's
born can be considered to be in the first year of its life.

I can't believe people, except Sakari, laugh and ridicule it without
at least reading the wikipedia entry that skriptis posted or even
googling it..

I have read it in the past, so I was aware of this. I don't know which country skriptis is from but he would still be wrong or really ignorant not knowing how most of the world speaks. Especially having spent quite some time in rst.

I used to use comma as a separator for decimals in the past...and still often am tempted to...must be in blood or something. However after learning that actually dot is the one used in SI system, the international system...I have lately began to use dot in these international forums(well it took me looooong time to accept that I had been kind of wrong using the comma)


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