maths

[how old am i]

0.45 kg of flesh

[spacechimp]

Do you mean 0.45359237kg of flesh?

[gen2]

15 next Tuesday?

[spacechimp]

me? no, may 15th

[reddoggy]

Are you metricating The Merchant of Venice, perchance?

[spacechimp]

oh, "15 next tuesday" wasn't directed at me.

[gen2]

No spacechimp, I was answering the only question asked.

Title: maths - Not a question
Content: 0.45 kg of flesh - text, Not a question
Signature: how old am i - definitely the only question asked.

If the questioner is still unsure, mayebe he/she could consult their birth certificate, ask his/her parents, or, as a last resort, count the rings on his/her teeth and then add one or two.

[spacechimp]

Gen2, just one problem with your desperate efforts to be grammatically correct: "consult their birth certificate". Mayebe isn't grammatical, so I will disregard this.

[joko]

Spacechimp - Could you elaborate on what is wrong with the phrase "...consult their birth certcificate..."?

What do you think it should be?
"consult they're..."? or "consult there..."?

Surely not?

Whose certificate should they check?

'Mayebe' isn't a grammatical problem, it is one word, and the problem is with spelling, not grammar.

Gen2 is right - there was no question...just random statements.

I suppose answering - "Do you mean 0.45359237kg of flesh?" is not a desperate attempt to be clever?

[spacechimp]

Joko, I said that "mayebe" was not a grammatical problem. The grammatical error he made was "their birth certificate" when throughout the post he was very careful to use "his/her".

Answering - "Do you mean 0.45359237kg of flesh?" was to confirm that I had understood and to try and just maybe, be mildly funny.

[spacechimp]

*2nd and = to

[joko]

Rather pedantic I think, and not really an 'error'.

As a newbie you should know, correcting grammar and spelling doesn't go down very well on here.

We also expect some degree of politeness and people to ask proper questions, not just make statements and expect people to try to figure it out for them.

[robbo82]

I think reddoggy is probably right- the answer is a pound of flesh.

[spacechimp]

Maybe it doesn't go down well, but if someone has clearly made a special effort to be correct, it can be helpful to give them a pointer or two.

[spacechimp]

Notice how I didn't make a special effort with my last post. ;)