[Ads-l] "half as cheap"
Robin Hamilton
robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM
Mon Oct 17 00:42:22 UTC 2016
Cheap at half the price?
R.
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> On 17 October 2016 at 01:39 Geoffrey Nunberg <nunbergg at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> A tweet by a U of Michigan economist:
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> > S Dynarski @dynarski 21m21 minutes ago
> > TIL:
> >
> > Shanghai Disney defines a child as 1.4 meters or shorter. That's 4.6 ft,
> > Americans.
> >
> > Disney tix are half as cheap in China as in US.
>
> I take it he wants to say they’re half as expensive, but I’m not sure he
> succeeded.
>
> Geoff
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