Japanese crossword «Clock»
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What a face - pure beauty & such elegance - very striking but if it takes you any longer than 12 minutes to solve - I suggest that you leave it for another day!
Right I don't want to alarm you all - but I have a question - if another name for a finger is a digit why don't digital clocks have hands?
Right I don't want to alarm you all - but I have a question - if another name for a finger is a digit why don't digital clocks have hands?
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Because digital (vs. analog) and digital (as in he lost a digit in a combine accident) are related but still two different definitions.
digital (adj.)The reason it's a digital clock is because it displays the exact time in digits/numerals.
mid-15c., "pertaining to numbers below ten;" 1650s, "pertaining to fingers," from Latin digitalis, from digitus "finger or toe" (see digit). The numerical sense is because numerals under 10 were counted on fingers. Meaning "using numerical digits" is from 1938, especially of computers which run on data in the form of digits (opposed to analogue) after c. 1945. In reference to recording or broadcasting, from 1960.
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FTR - I know John was just stringing a bunch of time metaphors into a joke. But, unless you're telling them to a small child, I've never thought that play-on-words jokes are funny when the actual answer to the base question is childishly simple. For example, Carlin's old gags about parking on a driveway but driving on a parkway - those don't have a good reason to be that way, just a happenstance of how the different terms evolved. Therefore they are somewhat ludicrous and irrational.
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