This is short post about something that was bouncing around in my head over the weekend that borders on “how” trap humor – but my curiosity is genuine.
As children most of us were taught that it takes one second for the typical person, speaking at typical speed to say the word “Mississippi.” It must actually be a little less, because we still have time to say the number we are on “one Mississippi, two Mississippi” and so on. Though crude, it has endured as a method for “how” to tell the amount of time passing when we don’t need to be perfectly precise (we have the atomic clock for that). Very handy.
So this weekend for whatever reason, I wondered what people in other countries, particularly places that don’t speak English, how they count seconds?
I don’t think they use Mississippi. Do they?
Let me know if you know.
-Ric
When I was skydiving back in France (and initially you skydive without an altimeter so counting seconds somewhat precisely is quite important) we were using the “2 zeros” approach: “zero-zero-un, zero-zero-two, etc”.
As you can see: zero-zero: 4 syllabus. Same sa Mississippi….
een-en-twintig, twee-en-twintig, drie-en-twintig
Like this we count the seconds in Holland.
As precise as you Mississippi though.
Gyske
When I was skydiving back in France (and initially you skydive without an altimeter so counting seconds somewhat precisely is quite important) we were using the “2 zeros” approach: “zero-zero-un, zero-zero-two, etc”.
As you can see: zero-zero: 4 syllabus. Same sa Mississippi….