destructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoImagine getting an Uber for a distance of "a couple of blocks"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square135linkfedilinkarrow-up1507arrow-down119
arrow-up1488arrow-down1imageImagine getting an Uber for a distance of "a couple of blocks"lemmy.worlddestructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square135linkfedilink
minus-squarelivingheart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agosounds like your English teacher taught you wrong, as a joke. a couple of blocks means two or three blocks, and more likely two. if I was looking for something “a couple of blocks away” and still hadn’t seen it by the fourth, I’d assume the directions were wrong or I’d got lost.
minus-squareLauchmelder@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·2 days agoyou’re arguing against a dictionary definition
sounds like your English teacher taught you wrong, as a joke.
a couple of blocks means two or three blocks, and more likely two.
if I was looking for something “a couple of blocks away” and still hadn’t seen it by the fourth, I’d assume the directions were wrong or I’d got lost.
you’re arguing against a dictionary definition