Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Isn't that the wrong way round? At least for me, "space" in
> > informal/non- technical speech is always volume, whereas in math I'm
> > equally happy to speak of spaces of one, two or forty-nine dimensions
> > as of three.
>
> By no means.  "How much space does your apartment have?" is an inquiry
> about area, not volume.
This particular Bloody Furriner (tm) wasn't aware of that. If someone had
asked me that, I'd have looked puzzled, and then answer something like 45m^3.

                                                  Andreas