Re: This day
From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
Date: | Friday, March 23, 2007, 23:54 |
In a message dated 3/23/2007 12:56:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
jimhenry1973@GMAIL.COM writes:
> On 3/23/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > ......... But "top" and
> > "bottom of the hour" are quite intuitive to me, relating as they do to
> > the minute hand's position at the top or bottom of the clock,
> > respectively.
>
> Do you mean you understand "bottom of the hour"
> to signify "N:30 plus or minus a few minutes" and
> "top of the hour" to signify "N:00 plus or minus
> a few minutes?
>
To me, "top/bottom of the hour" is fairly precise: the N:00 or N:30 times.
It's not exact though, so it could be stretched a little either, but it would
be a stretch.
stevo
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