i was listening to an internet radio station and they were touting their programming with the slogan "new music - 24/7/365"
it occurred to me that whoever decided to tack on the 365 is an idiot.
it had always kind of bugged me when someone said it that way but i never thought about it until this morning.
logic says that the phrase should follow the ratio of days to weeks to years. the correct phrase would then be 24/7/52.
but the mental giant who first decided to use the 365 day qualifier is following a days to weeks to days ratio.
that would be like saying "every year, ten years a decade, 100 years a century."
thank god i'm not prone to physical violence because i sometimes fantasize taking a bat to the heads of these nincompoops.
at least afterward their bad grammar could be blamed on blunt head trauma.
next rant subject: people who say "happy medium." i heard it no less than 10 times in a meeting last week.
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I'm so with you on the bats to nincompoops thing...
Grammar issues...hmmm...While we're on the subject might i bring out that you probably meant "no FEWER than 10 times in a meeting last week." When an actual number is involved the word "fewer" is gramatically correct. "Less" should only be used when it is a general amount, not a specific number. But that's enough for that rant subject. ;-)
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