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Impasse.

Source :
New Yorker; 7/30/1955, Vol. 31 Issue 24, p20-20, 1/6p
Publication Year :
1955

Abstract

The article presents an anecdote about a Mathematics teacher who took his wife to Copenhagen to learn how to count in Danish language. As his tutor, he called a waitress in a café, to whom he proffered a paper on which he had written a numbers one to four. The waitress smiled and continued to count and wrote five to eight. One of his friend ended the game and pointed a bottle of beer and holding up to two fingers.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0028792X
Volume :
31
Issue :
24
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Yorker
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
22658005