I’m pretty sure it is the musical style. Jazz is that bad.
TIL: how airport runways are numbered
(17 mins, but a fun diversion)
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So you’ll be prepared the next time you fly, amirite???
Blame Canada!
Yep. And I’ll be happy to regale my fellow travelers (suckers) with my new-found knowledge.
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Trust But Verify was not a Reagenism, but he quoting a Russian idiom
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Doveryay, no proveryay
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South America AND Brazil? Neat.
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for those wondering, the Chinese tally character means “upright”
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And apparently France and Spain are not part of Europe!
But that’s interesting. The South American one is kind of cool. I find the Asian one confusing, but I guess like anything you’d get used to it.
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why are the slashes the wrong direction for N. America?
It’s shown like this: \
When I’ve always written and seen it like this: /
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Hmmm, pretty sure I’ve seen it both ways, and I’m pretty unsure if I have a “usual” way of doing it.
I’ve always seen it like \ from my teachers.
Maybe it’s regional
I’ll often switch back and forth without really thinking about it.
i go left to right. will sometime just go horizontal
Either one looks right to me. But pretty sure I go left to right, from bottom to top,
I go horizontal.
For the slanted 5’s tally, I wonder if there’s a correlation between one’s handedness (left- vs right-) and the direction one draws the slant mark.
The more I think about it the more I think I’d use \ if I wasn’t thinking about it.