[Dragaera] Vlad's Age Revisited

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Jul 12, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Jon%20Lincicum wrote:

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> ----- "Kenneth Gorelick" <pulmon at me.com> wrote: 
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> On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Howard Brazee wrote: 
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>> 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. 
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>>> 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. 
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>> Unless one does so for humorous effect (with a child), people don't say "I am 95 years old - and a half". 
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>> I agree with your logic. 
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> 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! 
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> How does the manner in which one reports one's age interact with reincarnation of the soul? 
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> Oddly. 
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> Majikjon 

Why am I getting a feeling of dejà vu all over again...