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WCDT: 11-15 October 2010 (1771-1775)
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Oct 2010, 21:12 ---I suspect the idea that "young people" can't read analogue clock dials (or would be puzzled by a wristwatch) is just an ephebophobic urban legend. Dial clocks are still pretty common, and the toy-shops here are all well-stocked with those teaching-clocks on which we probably all learned to tell time.
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Think that all you like, but it's true. Certainly not for all 'young people,' but for some, yes. Colleagues of mine report that when the local high (secondary) school's schedule is disrupted in any way, some students students get completely disoriented. If, for example, a 'pep-rally' (if you don't know what this is, you ain't missing much) is scheduled in the middle of the day instead of at the end as is usual, at every bell that rings after the disruption these students express the joyous belief* that it's time to go home, despite the fact that every room and most of the hallways are fitted with large, analog clocks, and they're well aware it's not a 'short' day. Of course, cell phones are banned at this school, which may be part of the problem.
I'll hazard a guess that with some, the real problem is that a glance at an analog clock yields no information—concentrated study is required, since they rarely use the skill. But there are others who have little to no sense of time, period. Friends and I call them 'the timeless people.' If you've hired one of them to do some yardwork, etc., it's well to know this, as 'show up at four' is not likely to produce good results. "Come by right after school" works better. Summers can be trying.
*No, they're not just playing the odds that the teacher will buy it.
akronnick:
These kids today with their boogie-woogie music and their digital watches...
Kugai:
I no longer wear a watch simply because in recent years I have found my wrist gets irritated and itchy regardless what type of strap I use. I've gotten used to using my mobile whenever I want to know what time it is.
Carl-E:
--- Quote ---Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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akronnick:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 15 Oct 2010, 23:41 ---
--- Quote ---Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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