kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDid you know Taylor Swift was named after Albert Einstein?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squareDid you know Taylor Swift was named after Albert Einstein?kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSemperverus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·2 days ago“Yeah, a 110 years after.” reads as “Yeah, a one hundred and ten years after.” When you write a number like 100, you always say or expand out the full name of it, like “one hundred,” never the place denotation by itself, like “hundred.”
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoman even with this explanation I’m not dad enough to understand the joke
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoShe was named a hundred and ten years after Einstein was named, in a temporal sense rather than a transitive one.
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoooo I get it now, was taking the comment too subjective instead of litteral
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoMaybe you do. I read it as intended.
“Yeah, a 110 years after.” reads as “Yeah, a one hundred and ten years after.”
When you write a number like 100, you always say or expand out the full name of it, like “one hundred,” never the place denotation by itself, like “hundred.”
man even with this explanation I’m not dad enough to understand the joke
She was named a hundred and ten years after Einstein was named, in a temporal sense rather than a transitive one.
ooo I get it now, was taking the comment too subjective instead of litteral
Maybe you do.
I read it as intended.