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I didn’t hear you.
I hear you.
Just one short verb to express so much. Hear. Pronounced just like its homonym: here.
I hear you. I understand what you’re saying …
and I’m paying attention to WHAT you’re saying. It has not only reached my ears … it’s reached my … reason. I’m taking what you’re saying into consideration.
Famous people have said this at some point in their political careers when they’re forced to listen!
Others might be … a little hard of hearing and say this:
[audio:http://test.paris-savannah.com/wp-content/uploads/ex18022a1.mp3|titles=I didn’t hear you]and when it comes to the latest news … or gossip:
[audio:http://test.paris-savannah.com/wp-content/uploads/ex18022e1.mp3|titles=Have you heard]and when we finally meet … one of us just might say :
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miles and kilometers
distances … measuring how far … or how close!
In our age of precision, we have learned that … we strive for precision but that … actually, statistically, nothing is perfectly exact.
We ordinarily say that 1 mile is equal to 1.6 kilometers and that 1 kilometer is .6 of a mile.
For most practical purposes, this is sufficient. This is, in Donald Winnicott’s terms, “good enough.” … Maybe even better, in the circumstances, than precision down the scale:
kilometer
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What’s the equivalence?
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mile
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meter
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((A meter equals 39.37 inches. Their house has floor space of 200 square meters. A square meter is equal to 1.196 square yards.)) And then there are other meters, too … like parking meters … electricity and gas meters …
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centimeter
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One hundred centimeters …
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