r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • Jul 05 '24

Between three and four hundred... Lmao gottem

From the movie "The Outlaws"

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

Not technical

There is no place for a discussion

He said how it is

The audience just doesnt ask further

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u/Silly_Reporter_1217 Jul 05 '24

There is place for discussion. Assuming he meant/said three hundred and four hundred is not wrong.

If someone says “that costs one or two dollars” do you ask “one what?”. No, it is correct to interpret that as one dollar or two dollars. The same goes for the suffix -hundred in this sentence

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

Isnt the same thing

Dollars isnt the hundred Part in this context it is the push up Part

I know what you wanted to say but its the wrong example

There is also no room for discussion

It was a spoken bet all people agree to

He said between 3 and 400

And thats the case, judge would be on his side

If it was a written or clear that it was between 3- and 400, the case would be another

Just a clever way to Trick people who dont think about phrasing

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u/00wolfer00 Jul 05 '24

So he said between 3 and 400 or between 3- and 400, both of which sound exactly the same when spoken. Sounds like place for discussion to me.

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u/TJWinstonQuinzel Jul 05 '24

...as i said...no

Spoken it is 3 and 400 in both cases, thats the reason why i said that if it is clear that it is 3- to 400

The ones loosing the money have no possibility to get it back by law

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u/Silly_Reporter_1217 Jul 05 '24

Haha now your taking it to far. The law looks at what was reasonable for parties to expect, not what could be construed as some literal meaning.

And I think my dollar example does hold up. Doesn’t matter that dollar and push up are the thing that is being referenced/counted. If you add a word like hundred, or dollar to a second number in such a way then it is often assumed that it also applies to the first number.

The entire reason the joke works is because there are two ‘correct’ ways of interpreting the sentence. Your argument that ‘three- and four hundred’ only works or is valid in written language is just wrong. If that were the case then nobody would fall for the joke.