Who here is short!?
I'm a short guy and damn some guys tower over me. It makes me feel sort of weird.
Wait, why did I start a new thread for this? I'm sorry, I don't know why I did this...
Wait, why did I start a new thread for this? I'm sorry, I don't know why I did this...
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(I'm the second shortest guy I know in my age group. Sometimes I feel like a dwarf, wait what am I saying?)
Actually, I've shot up over the last few months.
At least people don't call you a bean or grain of rice.
I'm fairly short, five foot one inch. Didn't really care until my younger brother shot up to five foot eight and counting. Then my friends watched FullMetal Alchemist and thought it was really funny to call me a bean.
I'm 5 foot, 4 inches. And sometimes I wish I was taller, especially when I walk past all those ridiculously tall nyc model types. :mad:
But I don't mind being a little shorter, at least I won't get bad posture because I'm always looking up!
I have two t-shirts with that quote written on them!
I'm just under 5ft - 152cm!
My tall friends(..mainly just one) picks on me all the time. I don't mind though :P
round it up to 5'3"
"He must be a kid. He's so short. Like a hobbit. A little tiny hobbit."
Tell me, has the wind ever blown you away? Do you ever get intimidated coming in contact with so many giants during the day? And how do you avoid the problem of being stepped on? Has anyone ever called you Mini Me or mistaken you for Gary Coleman? Do people frequently shout out in the middle of class, "The plane! The plane!"?
As a completely unrelated note, I'm only 0.0000000000000001924 lightyears tall; I feel minuscule!
It is somewhat annoying when my collegues put things that I need out of reach though.
That's funny, because due to "bean stalk" meaning a tall person, I'd associate beans with being tall, not short.
I'm not short, but I'm guilty of flawed perceptions due to my husband being 6'6" (1m98).
For instance, after I spent a year in Canada with my husband and his roommate (the roommate is slightly shorter), when I went back and saw my dad I kept asking him if he was sure he wasn't shorter than me. Had to look in a mirror to see that indeed, he's taller, but I'm so used to my husband that in comparison everyone seems that much shorter.
So I can imagine it would be annoying to anyone who already feels too short. Sorry about that if I ever do it to you, I've done it to people who are tall! It's a comparison thing, he's pretty much the only human I see, and he's huge.
192cm actually, I'm the same height.
I know in France you say 1m50, or you write it "un mètre cinquante". Same with money, you'd say 1€50, not 1.50€ or, as people do in English, €1.50.
Actually French is consistent that way. You'd also say 1L50, 1h30 (or 1h50) and so on.
I personally like it. Of course that's the first one I knew. But for instance, you say 1.23 or something, and in French it's 1,23. Makes more sense to me, a comma shows it's part of the same "sentence", but a different part of said sentence. 1.23 kinda looks to me like it's supposed to be two different numbers. Although I guess I can talk since when you use a comma, we use a space. As in, three thousands, you'll write it 3,000, we'll write it 3 000.
I remember seeing stuff like a house shown as costing 600,000 something, and thinking "wow, it's cheap", because I thought the comma meant the same as in French. It was pretty confusing.
Also, I thought it'd be appropriate to post this.
LOL
In Basque it's something similar: Laurogei ta hamar, being "lau"=4 "ogei"=20 (or "hogei" when it's alone), "ta"="and, plus", and "hamar"=10
By the way, in Spain we also use the comma for 1,79 instead of the dot (1.79).
We use the dot for the thousands (3.000=three thousands)
And we usually say numbers as French people, like Avistew said in post #32
Because I know, for example, that in many countries 1,000,000,000 (10^9) is a billion, but in Spain a billion is 1.000.000.000.000 (10^12). Many professional translators keep forgeting that and they make very big mistakes sometimes.
But, how the bigger amounts do work?
In Spain, each number (trillion, quatrillion, quintillion, etc...) is a million of the previous one: a billion is a million of millions, a trillion is a million of billions, a quatrillion is a million of trillions and so on.
How it works in other countries? Is each number always a thousand times the previous? A billion is a thousand millions, a trillion is a thousand billions, and so on?
And about the French and the Basque languages counting by "twenties", I think it must have something to do with the humans having twenty fingers.
I still don't have figured out from where come the languages that count by "sixties", though. I think there's a few of them (don't remember which, though. Mostly ancient and almost forgoten languages, like some pre-columbian, IIRC), and I find that very intriguing...
Wait, you mean digits, right?