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

> > > > 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 don't like digital clocks because they don't give you the immediate sense of
relative time that analog clocks do. On a digital clock, it just says, say,
1:47, but with hands you can see that it's just past three quarters around the
circle, hence it's roughly quarter to 2. That's why I find them easier to read.
I'm not sure about faster, but I find them easier and more intuitive.

Now, what this has to do with Visigoths, however, is beyond me...

Heather

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