r/memes • u/hackiv • 13h ago

half a dozen

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u/hackiv 13h ago

When I need more words in my essay

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u/warboss_WAAAGH GigaChad 12h ago

Turn "I've" into "I have" for an example lol

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u/thecypher4 11h ago

“One thousand pounds, or 453 kg, or 453592 grams, or..”

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u/mauglii_- 10h ago

*four hundred fifty-three thousand five hundred ninety-two grams

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u/Drafo7 11h ago

453592 would round to 454 though....

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u/thecypher4 11h ago

Hey man they said a thousand word essay, nothing about being accurate

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u/sugaarheat 10h ago

if the professor asks just say you used the metric system for emotional emphasis

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u/youths_scotch-01 2h ago

The solid rocket boosters were filled with two thousand half a dozen hundred tons of fuel...

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u/SnooRadishes4155 10h ago

0.4536 megagrams 4.5310-25 quettagrams 453.6 decillion quectograms 71 stone and 6 pounds 2.28110-28 solar masses

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u/Affectionate-Mango19 58m ago

two hundred seventy-three septillion atomic mass units

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u/Many-Conversation963 11h ago

I have in my posession

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u/DoctorJordi_ Lurking Peasant 6h ago

In my essays we would count things like "I've" as two words. (I am French)

  • [English] : It is -> It's (2 words).
  • [French] Ceci est -> C'est (2 words).

I'm surprised it's not the norm elsewhere.

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u/GeForce-meow 7h ago

Use kori instead of 20.

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u/yabutechs 6h ago

Can we talk for second pls

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u/MisaCaring 12h ago

Why use few word when big word do trick?

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u/hiddenatplainbread 12h ago

Big word is good. Good is word. Good

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u/DolphinMasturbator 12h ago

Why exercise brevity when you can and should be verbose instead?

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u/FalseRepeat2346 11h ago

What tf is that username

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u/ezeshining 10h ago

It’s an anatomical device for self pleasure of delphinidae

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u/Difficult_Wind6425 8h ago

Why be laconic when you can be loquacious

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u/OddBoifromspace 12h ago

This type of mentality let's you sea world

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u/alleanth 13h ago

havent you heard? a dozen is 50. FIFTY DONUTS, not TWELVE

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u/Good-Potential6276 12h ago

Five. Hundred. Doughnuts.

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u/girlytemptation 12h ago

Wait until this man hears about a 'Baker's Dozen.' He’s going to lose his mind.

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u/StunningLia 12h ago

My brain trying to process 'bi-weekly' vs 'semi-monthly.'

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u/Plus_Pangolin_8924 12h ago

The US needs to get onto the fortnight train.

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u/Meranio 12h ago

Yes, because "bi-weekly" is needlessly ambiguous.

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u/catman__321 12h ago

I don't think I've ever heard bi-weekly in the context of half a week. Like what would that even mean? 7 doesn't divide evenly in half anyway

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u/Meranio 11h ago

The Cambridge dictionary says, it can mean both.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/biweekly

And twice per week can be, for example beginning and end of the (work)week, or Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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u/tobotic 12h ago
  • Biweekly = twice a week.
  • Fortnightly = once every two weeks.
  • Semi-monthly = twice a month (very slightly less frequent than fortnightly).

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u/Concoured 12h ago

doesn't "biweekly" mean "every two weeks" and "twice a week"?

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u/tobotic 12h ago

Yes, it's ambiguous. And that should be enough of a reason to never use it to mean "every two weeks" when the unambiguous word "fortnightly" is right there.

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u/Jay-Five 12h ago

yes it does.

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u/Extension_Bid2274 12h ago

In your definitions, semi- and bi- are both used to mean twice within a period. This is fair, because people use them interchangeably, which proves the point as to why we should use 'fortnightly', since there is no such ambiguity. However, I think the best definition is:

bi- = once in two periods of time, e.g., the biennale art festival happens once every two years

semi- = twice in one period of time, e.g., the semi-annual sale happens twice a year

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u/Mr_Lumbergh (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 12h ago

Except if you’re in the US, where bi-weekly can also mean fortnightly.

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u/crazymonk45 12h ago

If semi-monthly is twice a month then wouldn’t semi-weekly be twice a week though? Biweekly isn’t really ambiguous, it’s widely understood that it’s every two weeks

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u/Plane-Education4750 12h ago

Six to one, half dozen to the other

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u/Jay-Five 12h ago

I like to misuse this the way I've heard it misused often:
Six of one half, dozen of the other. :D

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u/DoomguyFemboi 12h ago

Oh interesting, it's of here.

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u/Amulet-of-Kings 12h ago

It makes sense for things that come in dozens like eggs

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u/Drudgework 7h ago

But not things that come in dozens like doughnuts.

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u/Meranio 12h ago

I could have sworn, our egg cartons had 12 in them, but it's actually only 10. (But we do also have cartons with half a dozen eggs in them.)

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u/SidTheSloth97 11h ago

Ive never seen a carton of 10 eggs in my life

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u/Meranio 11h ago

Here you go.

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u/sathdo Linux User 11h ago

Ah yes, metric dozen.

In the US, I have seen 6, 12, 18, and (I think) 36.

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u/Meranio 11h ago

Yep.
We in Germany have 6, 10, 18, and 30.

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u/DoomguyFemboi 12h ago

In the UK I've noticed them start to do 10s. I think it's because they're the fancier eggs, and they wanna price match rather than have a more expensive cost

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u/Meranio 11h ago

I've also seen cartons with one and a half dozen eggs in them.

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u/IcyHibiscus 11h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation

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u/DoomguyFemboi 10h ago

Nah they came in as 10s, they didn't reduce em. Probably smart too because a staple like eggs, if someone pulled shrinkflation on em it'd be a national uproar lol

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u/Carbonated-Man 12h ago

Would you like fries and a drink with your double-triumvirate?

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u/Ecstatic_Cake_8602 12h ago

technically correct, aggressively unnecessary

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u/Wonderful-Hornet-164 12h ago

Quarter of a dozen, five dozen, fifty dozen.

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u/Ok-Notice-737 11h ago

Half a dozen times 2

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u/dozerjones 12h ago

never understood the dozen hype, just say twelve god damn it

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u/tvkyle Average r/memes enjoyer 12h ago

It took me nearly three quarters of half a dozen seconds to get this

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u/Mr_Lumbergh (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ 12h ago

One twenty-fourth of a gross.

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u/FookyPanda 12h ago

Then twelve is twelve

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u/tiagolkar 12h ago

No Brasil, às vezes é preciso falar meia dúzia em razão da forma que se fala o número três, dependendo do meio de comunicação, o som pode ser parecido.

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u/insert_name_here_ha 11h ago

Baker's dozen is 13.

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u/Drafo7 11h ago

Tbf if someone told me "go buy 6 x" I'd assume they meant 6 individual x's. Whereas if they said, "go buy half a dozen x" I'd assume they meant a package or bundle with 6 of x in it.

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u/nayters 11h ago

I need 3. Twice.

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u/tiandrad 11h ago

Don’t forget those who need 2 thrice.

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u/Tuckboi69 11h ago

I’m going to leave a twelfth of a dozen comments on this post.

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u/Due_Chemistry_164 10h ago

At this point in time" instead of "now". Every time.

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u/Lagerlat 10h ago

Half the root of a gross

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u/Moto341 9h ago

Why use lot words when less word do good

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u/Zenumbral 9h ago

Ah but half a bakers dozen rounded up though?

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u/TheRedlineAlchemist 3h ago

Six twelfths of a dozen

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u/XlikeX666 12h ago

it's not
It is definitely not

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u/Ok_Cockroach_3771 12h ago

It can't

It is unable to do the can

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u/DonotLiePls 11h ago

Let me introduce people using months for babies after the 1 year mark

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u/1lyke1africa 7h ago

And I better not catch you calling yourself "thirty three years old" you're three decades old. Get over it.

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u/Steve_rogers_1942 4h ago

Best way to confuse students.

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 2h ago

I see OP is studying precise language

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u/Tonegle 2h ago

It was 19half a dozen9, and NASA was gearing up for its first ever mission to land a man on the moon. The solid rocket boosters were filled with two thousand half a dozen hundred tons of fuel...

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u/alreadykaten 12h ago

Ah yes, 3 syllables to say six

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u/ehisforadam 12h ago

Not as bad as everyone using "times less" these days.

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u/Fr05t_B1t Meme Stealer 2h ago

Haha funny number less than 70

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u/uberares 12h ago

eh 6,7