A: Hey, what are you writing about?
B: I’m writing a card to wish my teacher a happy Teacher’s Day.
A: But you spelled Teachers’ Day wrong. The word “Teachers” should be plural rather than singular.
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B: Why should “Teachers” be plural?
A: According to my English-speaking friends, since everyone has many teachers, it makes more sense to spell it as plural.
A: 你在寫什麼啊?
B: 我在寫卡片給老師要祝他教師節快樂。
A: 不過你把教師節的英文拼錯了,教師要用複數,而不是用單數!
B: 為什麼教師要用複數?
A: 據外國朋友說,每個人都有許多老師,所以應該用複數才對。
(By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Long before numerals and arithmetic systems developed, humans relied on tally marks to count. These simple, repeated marks — often just straight lines — are one of the earliest and most widespread methods of recording numbers. Archaeological findings suggest that humans began tallying in prehistoric times. During the Late Stone Age in Africa, humans began to carve notches onto bones to create tangible records of quantities. One of the earliest known examples is the Wolf bone, an artifact unearthed in Central Europe in 1937. This bone bears notches believed to be an early form of counting. Even more intriguing
A: In addition to Teng Kai-wei, Taiwanese infielder Cheng Tsung-che was called up temporarily to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates in early April. B: Yeah, Cheng is the 18th player in Taiwan’s baseball history to be moved up to the majors. A: Back in 2002, Chen Chin-feng became the first Taiwanese to play in the Major League Baseball (MLB), followed by Tsao Chin-hui, Wang Chien-ming, Kuo Hung-chih, Hu Chin-lung and Lin Che-hsuan. B: Those pioneers were later joined by Lo Chia-jen, C.C. Lee, Ni Fu-te, Chen Wei-yin, Wang Wei-chung, Hu Chih-wei, Tseng Jen-ho, Lin Tzu-wei, Huang Wei-chieh, Yu Chang,
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Continued from yesterday(延續自昨日) https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang In many Western countries, the most common form of tally marks employs a five-bar gate structure: four vertical lines followed by a diagonal slash. To form this group, one begins by drawing four parallel vertical lines, each representing one. For the fifth, draw a diagonal line across the existing four. This diagonal stroke effectively creates a distinct group of five. To continue counting, just initiate a new cycle in the same manner. A set of five tallies combined with a single vertical line next to it represents the number six. Across many Asian countries, the Chinese character