kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDid you know Taylor Swift was named after Albert Einstein?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1message-squareDid you know Taylor Swift was named after Albert Einstein?kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSemperverus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·1 day 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-up7·17 hours agoman even with this explanation I’m not dad enough to understand the joke
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·16 hours 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-up5·16 hours agoooo I get it now, was taking the comment too subjective instead of litteral
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·22 hours 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.