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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a Classicist and a Mathematician. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | The comic lists the best to worst ways in which you can write out phrases that are phonetically the same as "65%". They go from the common "65%" and "65 percent" to "65 per cent," which is not common in Randall's area and time, to the | + | The comic lists the best to worst ways in which you can write out phrases that are phonetically the same as "65%". They go from the common "65%" and "65 percent" to "65 per cent," which is not common in Randall's area and time, to the odd "sixty-five%" and "65 per¢" (using the cent currency symbol) which are not really used and look archaic. The middle option, "65 per cent", was common in older literature, along with "65 per cent.", using "cent." as an abbreviation for "centum", which is Latin for "hundred". ("per" is Latin for "through"). The entire string would translate to "65 for every hundred." "Per cent" is more widely used in British English than in American English today. |
− | + | The title text references Latin pronunciations, which are often different from English ones. In Classical Latin, "C" is believed to have been pronounced like a "K". However, the "c" in "percent", like most C's from Latin roots in modern languages, is pronounced like an "S". Nerdy students of classical Latin, especially those rare few who learn the Latin words before they learn the modern words that have derived from them, will pronounce them with hard "C" sounds, because academia trains Latin students in the pronunciations of ancient Rome rather than those of the modern religious Latin used in the Vatican. Such people may pronounce "celtic" like "keltic", "caeser" like "kaiser", or "cent" like "kent" (although some might be saying the more accurate phrase pronunciation "pare kentum"). | |
− | + | In this case, Randall's friends found him so annoying they trained him out of it like a cat by spraying him with water every time he pronounced the word "per-kent." Training people this way was previously a punchline in [[220: Philosophy]]. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Percentage styles in order of acceptability | :Percentage styles in order of acceptability | ||
:[A long vertical line is shown with five dots on it.] | :[A long vertical line is shown with five dots on it.] | ||
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<!-- How smart are screen readers at recognizing the differences?--> | <!-- How smart are screen readers at recognizing the differences?--> | ||
:65%<!-- ["6", "5" and a "%" symbol]--> | :65%<!-- ["6", "5" and a "%" symbol]--> | ||
− | :[ | + | :[short distance] |
:65 percent<!-- ["6", "5" and the word "percent"]--> | :65 percent<!-- ["6", "5" and the word "percent"]--> | ||
− | :[ | + | :[a much longer distance] |
:65 per cent<!-- ["6", "5" and two words "per" and "cent"]--> | :65 per cent<!-- ["6", "5" and two words "per" and "cent"]--> | ||
− | :[ | + | :[a distance roughly twice the previous] |
:Sixty-five%<!-- ["Sixty-five" as a word and a "%" symbol]--> | :Sixty-five%<!-- ["Sixty-five" as a word and a "%" symbol]--> | ||
− | :[ | + | :[an exceedingly long distance] |
:65 per¢<!-- ["6", "5", the word "per" and the "¢" currency symbol]--> | :65 per¢<!-- ["6", "5", the word "per" and the "¢" currency symbol]--> | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |