I'm with Veit --- it's her 11th half-birthday. - Cris On Apr 4, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe I'm overanalyzing it like the old curmudgeon I am, but the whole fifth-and-a-halfth birthday thing is not making sense to me. Would your call 5.5 the fifth-and-a-halfth integer? The day Eliana exceeds 5.5 years of age isn't *any* kind of birthday, just as 5.5 isn't any kind of integer. Celebrating it seems fine to me (a year is a very long time to a little kid), but we should come up with a different name for it. I guess I'm agreeing with Mike Speciner.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Her 2004th unbirthday?
--Dan
On Apr 4, 2014, at 6:55 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
My daughter Eliana will be five-and-a-half tomorrow.
We are wondering: will tomorrow be her five-and-a-halfth birthday, or her fifth-and-a-half birthday?
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