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When people say 24-7 it's logically and it's easy to comprehend without a dictionary.
But when somebody talks about his shiny future, good job, wife and "2.5 children/kids" (I saw also "2.1 children") what exactly does this number mean? Height? weight? Two heads, five legs? Two boys, five girls? :) :?
LOL. It's kind of an ironic expression in this case -- here it's the "perfect" family. Really, it's the product of a mean average. If the UN, for example, says the average Russian family has 2.1 children, it doesn't mean two kids and a set of feet, but just a mathematical figure. It's just a useful comparison tool. You could use this in a research paper comparing Russian and Indian households, for example: "Russia has 2.1 children per family, but India has 4.6 per family -- a trend reflected in the total national population. This is disconcerting for Russian officials, since there is a looming population crisis (these are entirely random figures by the way -- don't cite this for your dissertation!). Does this clear it up?Quote:
Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
Thank you, Barmaley!
Ты очень понятно все объяснил. :wink:
Лучше сказать: разжевал. :wink:
Чего? Не понимаю, Артем...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
There used to be a TV show here in the UK called 2.4 Children, as that was the average British family at the time. This was about 10 years ago.
Not 2,4 children?Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
Разжевал -- объяснил очень подробно, как ты объяснил про среднестатистическое количество детей, и как я тебе сейчас объясняю :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmaley
и второе значение: разжевать - то есть, ты например засунул в рот чёрствый хлеб, а потом разжевал егоQuote:
Originally Posted by MasterAdmin
No, we use '.' for decimals and commas for writing stuff, e.g.:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmaley
2.5 = two and a half
1,000,000 = one million
1.000.000 wouldn't make any sense to most English people (I imagine that's how you write a million?), and 2,5 wouldn't be much better. It looks more like a co-ordinate.
Hey I never thought about that, which way do they write numbers in Russia?
2,543.34 or 2.543,34???
Neither.Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero
2,5 = two and a half
2 000 000 or 2000000 (but neither 2.000.000 nor 2,000,000) = two millions
Get the idea?
2 543,34 would be the Russian equivalent of English 2,543.34
Cool. The comma system owns.
Ой! Ну, ты хорошо разжевал слово "разжевал!" Спасибо.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterAdmin
No, in the States we'd say: 1,000,000 dollars and 2.4 rugrats. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey
Above also applies to brittian, and most over english speaking countries, as far as I am aware...
Yeah. Most countries in Europe use commas as decimal dividers, though. Some people just use spaces as thousand dividers to be clearer, i.e. тысяч = 1 000.
I've always put dots in thousands. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by translations.nm.ru
Uh oh, I hope your boss hasn't been paying you 1.000 roubles a monthQuote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
Me too, because that's not very many roubles, no matter how you look at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie