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Post by patapin on Jan 8, 2019 10:49:30 GMT
Hi everybody, i wish you a very Happy New Year, full of joy and Bollywoods! Poor Peppermint Patty, she struggles hard to understand fractions, but fails every time. In this strip, her answer is very strange. Could you please translate it mathematically, and try to write something like "6/1 and 6/12"?  |
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Post by MrB on Jan 8, 2019 13:42:49 GMT
The joke is that the phrase is nothing to do with fractions. "Six of one and half a dozen of the other" sounds like something mathematical, but it is a phrase used to mean that two apparently different things are much the same as each other. A dozen is twelve, so half a dozen is six, which means that "six" is just the same as "half a dozen" and the phrase is just saying the same thing two different ways.
For example, ff someone asks, "Do you prefer your eggs scrambled or poached?", and you answer, "It's six of one and half a dozen of the other", then you're saying that you have no preference.
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Post by patapin on Jan 8, 2019 14:15:00 GMT
Hello MrB,  excellent! Thank you, now this strip sounds much more comic to me. It looks like maths, but it means something like "C'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet" in French! |
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Post by MrB on Jan 9, 2019 18:50:33 GMT
Hello MrB, excellent! Thank you, now this strip sounds much more comic to me. It looks like maths, but it means something like "C'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet" in French! Exactement! |
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Post by dancelover on Jan 10, 2019 16:27:14 GMT
And yet I remember being taught that "un homme grand" et "un grand homme" meant two different things. Dancelover Hello MrB, excellent! Thank you, now this strip sounds much more comic to me. It looks like maths, but it means something like "C'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet" in French! |
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Post by patapin on Jan 11, 2019 10:11:31 GMT
Hello dancelover, that's right: "un homme grand" means a man who is tall and "un grand homme" means a great man (regarding to what he did). |
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