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Q1: Which is heavier: a kilogram of gold or a kilogram of feathers? Q2: Which is heavier: a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? Q3: Which is heavier: an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers? (1/3, answers in next post)
Mathstodon (mathstodon.xyz)
For a moment reading that, I thought that it might have gone a lot worse than it actually did.
‘I gave my love a chicken that had no bone’
6 words! On the day of this day. But I take your point that when the final combination happened there were only 4 words.
I knew that French did this sort of thing in the modern period after the spelling was fixed, such as ‘qu'est-ce que’ (what is this that), which might well be written ‘quèsque’ (what) if it were a new word. So it shouldn't be surprising that they were doing this back in the day.
And isn't ‘au’ itself a contraction of ‘à’ and ‘le’? So 5 words!
We need more of these.
So much for the previous vote!
I'm voting for the LotR reference so they'll know I was bullshitting them back in #3.
Do you have the next entry planned out for each of the answers, or do you just wing it when you see what's been chosen?
