Comment on America
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 day agoI grew up with a Betamax tape player under the family TV. It had a 24 hour clock and it was the timepiece in the house that was in the right spot to tell us all that it was bedtime. As a result I have an intuitive feel for the 24 hour clock. But if you haven’t used it regularly, which most ordinary Americans don’t, then yeah you just have to stop and do the arithmetic before you can connect 21:00 to your sense of time.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You know what fucks me up is that 21 has a “nine-ness” quality to it now that sometimes makes me mess up real math.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hah I can believe that.
I’m not technically synaestehtic but I do have strong associations between numbers and colors, days of the week and colors.
Saturday has always been blue. Sunday is red. Number 4 is green, 3 is yellow, etc.
For a time I lived in an Islamic country where Friday is the holy day, not Sunday. So the weekends were Thursday-Friday and not Saturday-Sunday.
Was weird is that my red/blue associations with Saturday/Sunday shifted onto Thursday/Friday after a long time of living like this. And then I left that place and my associations shifted back.
The “nineness” of a thing, as you say, is hard to describe.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Do you think the sat/blue sun/red thing comes from calendars? I don’t think about it often, but I do think there is a “redness” to sunday.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
oh that’s easy. all multiples of three, you add their digits and the digits add up to three.
also if you’ve made a transposition error (179 instead of 197) you will be off by a multiple of 9.