poll: if you speak english fluently, would you consider the following phrase to be grammatical or ungrammatical in casual, informal speech?
“in a half an hour”
an example sentence might be “we’re gonna meet in a half an hour.”
remember, i’m not asking about “proper” english class grammar. i mean in just day-to-day speech, does that sound correct to you or not? i just recently noticed that i have a tendecy to use the indefinite article twice in the phrase “a half an hour” and i’m curious if that’s weird or not.
i did a bad job with this and can’t edit it cause it’s a poll lol. i should’ve asked people to put in the tags where they’re from roughly to get an idea. also i should’ve tagged it with linguistics. oh well.
I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …
And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …
Anyways …
OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …
