No. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-birthday, carefully defined so that 1/2 is one's first half-birthday. Also note that, in common parlance, "birthday" is the anniversary of the day of birth. Although my daughter sang "Happy Birthday" to her newborns, much to the amusement of the attending nurse/midwives. On 04-Apr-14 14:03, Cris Moore wrote:
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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