My brain just exploded
There’s nothing like a good revelation and I just had an absolute doozy… I was explaining to my cousins how I can be a bit undecided whether to go for first or second gear in the Mazda, because it’s such a low-ratio gear I often times say to myself:
I may as well just throw it in second, ’cause I’m going to be in second in a second anyway.
And then it hit me… “Second” (the word) has two meanings; It identifies a numeric position (First, Second, Third…) and is also a time measurement (30 seconds, etc).
At the time of my brain-explosion I was dropping my cousins back to their home away from home (they live in Sydney) who speak fluent French and they said that the same word in-fact has three meanings in France; the same two I just identified and a third - which essentially means two years before university (Grade 11).
I don’t know about you, but I feel smarter… :P
