Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)

Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by sans_souse on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:27PM (#43249538)

I have to ask does anyone know why the site asks "Are you between 13 and 15 years old?"

Rather odd both the question and the specificity.. Would this not be the same as asking; "Are you 14 years old?"

Not to mention I almost clicked "Yes" thinking it was asking the more common "Are you at least this many years or older?"

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Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by fells on Monday March 03, 2025 @10:15PM (#43249863)

> Would this not be the same as asking; "Are you 14 years old?"

"between x and y" normally includes the endpoints.

For example, if someone asks you to pick a number between 1 and 10, everyone would pretty much agree that 1 and 10 are acceptable choices.

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Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by Terr_ on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:08AM (#43250575)

The ambiguity of such questions drove me up the wall as a child.

My mother has a story about how I would ask about future events as "the day after the day after the day after the day after the day after today", which in my mind was much clearer than "in X days" why it wasn't clear how rounding occurred.

Clearly, this set me up for a career involving off-by-one errors.

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Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by haraball on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:29AM (#43252384)

Norwegian has the phrases "fra og med" and "til og med", where the "og med" means "including". So "from and including Monday" removes the ambiguity.

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Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by MrMcCall on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:40PM (#43260073)

Ha! That's truly funny and obeys some kind of comedy rule about taking the story one way and then veering in a different direction. Well done, indeed.

Our daughter used to say "yesterday's yesterday" when she was 4ish and I really liked it.

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Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by mock-possum on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:09AM (#43250578)

They would be technically acceptable yet they would feel exceptional

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Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank... by c22 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:04PM (#43261447)

Okay, but if you say "pick a seat between Steve and Paul" I'm not going to sit in either lap.

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