Not 60 minutes or fewer?
Not really, because "60 minutes" is being referred to more as one vague clump of time t insert appropriate Doctor Who quote here rather than as 60 individual minutes. It's not exactly like the express lane at the grocery.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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Steph L. - Aug 13, 2015 1:59:12 pm PDT #3241 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Connie Neil - Aug 13, 2015 2:06:41 pm PDT #3242 of 30003
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What is the rationale for saying "60 minutes" as opposed to "an hour"? 60 minutes sounds shorter? Less monolithic than "an hour"?
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2015 2:09:20 pm PDT #3243 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What is the rationale for saying "60 minutes" as opposed to "an hour"? 60 minutes sounds shorter? Less monolithic than "an hour"?
Beats me. In matters like this, as long as it doesn't contradict our style manual, we leave it the way the author wrote it. I suspect at least some the authors are (or were) in the military, and they're using the exact language in the DoD mandate. Which is fine.
EpicTangent - Aug 13, 2015 2:09:52 pm PDT #3244 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Maybe an hour seems less exact? Even though it's defined as 60 minutes. But there's no room for, "But I thought it was 67 minutes, sir!" "67!? We're not metric!"
-t - Aug 13, 2015 2:22:34 pm PDT #3245 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Cool. It didn't exactly sound wrong to me, but then neither one sounded right once i thought about it, and thinking about it more was leading more towards the quantized universe rabbit hole.
sarameg - Aug 13, 2015 2:24:39 pm PDT #3246 of 30003
Found out a college friend adopted a baby boy yesterday! I knew they had talked about pursing it a while back, but had no idea it was so close to happening.
Ginger - Aug 13, 2015 2:51:48 pm PDT #3247 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Less than is used for time, distance and ages, because they're amounts, not countable things.
Juliebird - Aug 13, 2015 3:03:00 pm PDT #3248 of 30003
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
PMSing and watching cat videos to cheer myself, but they're turning into hateful torture videos where owners deliberately terrorize their own pets for fun and it's just making me sad. Hooray for installing fear in our companions!
ION, I met a vegetarian who has cow skin carpets. I was heartened. I can't explain why.
-t - Aug 13, 2015 3:52:03 pm PDT #3249 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
because they're amounts, not countable things.
This is what messes me up, because I know that rule but my concept of "countable thing" is not super clear.
Jesse - Aug 13, 2015 4:04:54 pm PDT #3250 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys, it's still fun when a Good Stuff post takes off, but I think I may have gotten all of the followers already. That guy giving free haircuts to kids has like 50K notes, but I only got 170 new followers!