Ana was doing her journal yesterday.
Mar. 18th, 2010 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
She HATES doing her journal, but we're putting more emphasis on it because she's behind in writing (and advice = appreciated). She decided to write about the storm and the trees that fell. Well, she's supposed to put in "describing words" so I asked her what sort of trees. So she carefully wrote "Old and big trees". And then she read it over, stopped, and erased to make "big and old trees". Now, she's right to do that - in English, big always comes before old, and never the other way around. (And both of them come before color words.) But she kept the and. I asked her about it and she went "No, I HAVE to have an AND, Connie!" Silly me. (Yesterday she also told me, while doing a worksheet on counting by twos, that "There is no 30 in counting by twos, my teacher told me!" I asked if, instead, her teacher had said that when you count by twos nothing ends in a 3 - the grunt she gave me suggests that I'm probably right, but she didn't want to admit it because then she'd have to fess up to having been wrong.
In other thoughts, over in Ginmar's journal they're talking about this jerk who... well, read it yourself. Ginmar described him as paying "hundreds of dollars" for car parts. This was corrected in a comment - he spent something like 130,000 in parts. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Which is, technically, still hundreds of dollars.
It's also still dozens of dollars, but you can't say that. Why is it some things - cookies, eggs, children - can be counted by dozens, but dollars can't? Dollars can be counted - we can have hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars, millions of dollars, but not by dozens or tens. (You can't count eggs by tens either unless you're weird, but you can count them by the hundreds, I guess.) Why is that?
In other thoughts, over in Ginmar's journal they're talking about this jerk who... well, read it yourself. Ginmar described him as paying "hundreds of dollars" for car parts. This was corrected in a comment - he spent something like 130,000 in parts. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Which is, technically, still hundreds of dollars.
It's also still dozens of dollars, but you can't say that. Why is it some things - cookies, eggs, children - can be counted by dozens, but dollars can't? Dollars can be counted - we can have hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars, millions of dollars, but not by dozens or tens. (You can't count eggs by tens either unless you're weird, but you can count them by the hundreds, I guess.) Why is that?
