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Is this a new way of doing this?
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| Judity01 2004-10-27, 7:09 pm |
| Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV station
article.
"At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
Judity
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| Barbara OBrien Smith 2004-10-27, 7:09 pm |
| >Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV
station article. >"At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
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>Judity
I hope not...it looks riduculous. I've never seen it that way.
Barbara
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| Marsha 2004-10-27, 7:09 pm |
| Judity01 wrote:
> Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV station
> article.
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> "At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
That's a new one on me.
Marsha/Ohio
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| SANDITYPES 2004-10-27, 10:09 pm |
| >>Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV
>station article. >"At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
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>I hope not...it looks riduculous. I've never seen it that way.
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>Barbara
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Could be, if it's from a TV station, that it was originally read on the air,
and that may just be easier to read live.
Sandi
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| djgordon 2004-10-28, 2:07 am |
| Like someone else said, if it was from a transcript that had been read on TV
at one time, that tells you how smart anchor people are considered since
they had to write it that way instead of 27,500 so they wouldn't screw it
up. LOL
Dani
"Judity01" <judity01@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041027162622.03671.00003033@mb-m04.aol.com...
> Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV
station
> article.
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> "At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
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> Judity
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| Eliyahu Rooff 2004-10-28, 11:07 am |
| I don't see it as a matter of intelligence, but simply a way of avoiding
the possibility of transposing numbers while reading them aloud. This
was a fairly easy one, but if you replace the zeros with other digits or
think of longer numbers, you can see why breaking them up into segments
avoids that problem.
Eliyahu
"djgordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:Nz_fd.48944$mn5.2270@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> Like someone else said, if it was from a transcript that had been read
on TV
> at one time, that tells you how smart anchor people are considered
since
> they had to write it that way instead of 27,500 so they wouldn't screw
it
> up. LOL
>
> Dani
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> "Judity01" <judity01@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:20041027162622.03671.00003033@mb-m04.aol.com...
TV[vbcol=seagreen]
> station
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| djgordon 2004-10-28, 11:07 am |
| You may be exactly correct, but as you said, this is a fairly easy one. I
love our local news anchors to death, they are really nice, but they are
ditzy at best and stumble over words constantly.
Dani
"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:10o1vbbiad8n9b5@corp.supernews.com...
> I don't see it as a matter of intelligence, but simply a way of avoiding
> the possibility of transposing numbers while reading them aloud. This
> was a fairly easy one, but if you replace the zeros with other digits or
> think of longer numbers, you can see why breaking them up into segments
> avoids that problem.
>
> Eliyahu
>
> "djgordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:Nz_fd.48944$mn5.2270@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> on TV
> since
> it
> TV
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| Barbara OBrien Smith 2004-10-31, 4:08 am |
| >Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV
station article. >"At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
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>Judity
I hope not...it looks riduculous. I've never seen it that way.
Barbara
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| Marsha 2004-10-31, 4:08 am |
| Judity01 wrote:
> Have any of you seen a number written out this way? I found it in a TV station
> article.
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> "At issue are some 27-thousand-500 new registrations."
That's a new one on me.
Marsha/Ohio
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