[Dragaera] Vlad's Age Revisited

[Jon%20Lincicum]

----- "Kenneth Gorelick" <pulmon at me.com> wrote: 



On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Howard Brazee wrote: 

> On 7/12/2010 10:08 AM, Scott Schultz wrote: 
>> What I was suggesting (which, I grant you, may just be a reflection of my 
>> own brain's workings) is that a person making this kind of statement would 
>> generally pick the closest applicable fraction. That is, if Vlad was 31 he 
>> would say "Almost two-thirds of the time I've been alive" rather than "More 
>> than half of the time I've been alive". The latter suggests to me that his 
>> own age is closer to forty than thirty. 
>> 
>> In the end, it's properly imprecise and the specific meaning, if any, is 
>> mostly reliant on how Steve would approach the usage of that kind of 
>> phrasing. 
>> 
> Unless one does so for humorous effect (with a child), people don't say "I am 95 years old - and a half". 
> 
> I agree with your logic. 

For a child you report major percents of your life: 21/4, 3 1/2...then 10..11..12..after 21 you think in 1/2 decades, after 40 in decades. Then as you age you report in terms of your remaining life expectancy. So by 95 then I DO expect reports in1/2 years, and by 100 in 1/4 years! 


How does the manner in which one reports one's age interact with reincarnation of the soul? 

Oddly. 

Majikjon