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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 </HTML>

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Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>