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How tall are you?
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sagethefreak
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Originally posted by LeX
15.Looks hopeless doesn't it? :cry2::cry2:
kamejoko... I'm 3cm shorter than you! *sob* I must be one of the shortest person around huh? Hey, why don't I just go kill myself!?? ARRRGH~~~~~!!!!!
dont worry, when i was like 14 i was your height, now im 15, and i've grown like crazy. god its weird... i allways think everyone is alot older... but theres all these like 13-14 year olds on here. crazyness.
In America, we use a comma for a grouping symbol and a period to denote a decimal.
"5,676" means five-thousand six-hundred and seventy-six feet.
"5.676" means five and six-hundred seventy-six thousandths feet, which is what you meant. Of course, no American would ever say that. We would say 5'8".
"5'8"" is read five-foot eight.
It's very simple. An apostrophe means foot, a quotation mark means inch.
"5'9"" means five-foot nine (you don't say "nine inch", inch is just implied. Sometime "foot" is implied too, if someone says "five-nine", they mean 5'9").
"5"9'" is simply wrong, but I guess you could read it as five inches plus nine feet.
...unless you're talking about degrees, then a degree symbol means degree, a apostrophe means minute, and a quotation mark means second.
"1°2'5"" means one-degree, two minutes, and five seconds. But you weren't talking about that.
"Wierd" is misspelled, it should be "weird". Remember the rule:
English is a fun language, isn't it? So is English Standard (inch, hand, link, foot, yard, fathom, rod, chain, furlong, statute mile, nautical mile, league). It makes absolutely no sense and that's the beauty of it! I think its sole intent is to confuse the foreigners.
philipgreenwood
New Member
I got taller (honest!)
I kid you not:
I have increased my height from 6ft 3ins to 6ft 4ins= AMAZING!
I was measured by a doctor who noticed the change when I went in to give up smoking.
I have been practising yoga and the 'Alexander Technique" which seem to have stretched my height/back; I never intended this to happen and was already hitting my head on low ceilings.
I kid you not:
I have increased my height from 6ft 3ins to 6ft 4ins= AMAZING!
I was measured by a doctor who noticed the change when I went in to give up smoking.
I have been practising yoga and the 'Alexander Technique" which seem to have stretched my height/back; I never intended this to happen and was already hitting my head on low ceilings.
I'm 5'11" and I'm 19. Here in India the average height it 6'. I have noticed the average height in the US is around 6'4".
Actually, just taking the first site from a quick google search: "Averages for modern Americans are just over 5’ 9" for men, and about 5’ 3 ¾" for women."
The average height you get by asking people is more like 6'4", though. Either shorter people don't answer, or they add a few inches when asked.
