Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:

> Andreas Johansson sikyal:
>
> > > In spite of digitalization rotation clocks don't
> > > seem to be falling out of use (probably because
> > > once you learn how they are quicker to read),
>
> Eh? Not to me. Perhaps it's related to my persistent inability
> to keep left-right straight, but it often takes me several seconds of
> staring at a rotation clock to make out what time it is.
I'm told that, indeed, most people read analog clocks faster. One might
speculate, of course, that this has something to do with analog clocks being
more common.

Personally I'm not aware that I read either kind quicker.

> > I heard a while ago that, in Sweden at least, the proportion of digital
> > watches has actually been falling since the '80s.
>
> Perchance the cultural associations are helping this?
Surely. Humans are not going to make decisions on purely utilitarian grounds
if they can avoid it.

> As the older thing, analog clocks have prestige.
> In America, at least, only analog watches can
> be worn in any semi-formal setting, as digital watches are considered
> insufferably tacky.
I rarely turn up in formal settings, but I believe that's true at home too.
Supposedly, you cannot wear any kind of wrist watch if you're at somewhere
really classy.

                                                Andreas