.093 - actually I thought to myself 1/32 (.031) x 3.
In full disclosure, I’m a mechanical designer and I use both on a daily basis.
I bet FairyChatMom can, too.
It’s possible she’s tongue-tied, but I think it’s more likely she’s simply never found anyone who could clearly explain to her how to make that sound. I know from my own experience that most instructions are utterly useless to someone who’s never produced a trilled r before.
Some do, but some don’t. Lowercase f, uppercase J, lowercase k, uppercase Q (which looks like a 2), upper and lowercase S and Z are all radically different from their print counterparts. Upper and lower case Vs look more like Us than Vs. M, N, and W are different enough from the print versions to confuse a young reader.
All of the ones you mentioned look like the printed version if you don’t pick up the pen. (e.g., lowercase k. here’s the way I learned how to print lowercase k.. If you do those same three lines, but start from the bottom (from the letter before) and you never pick up the pen - then lines 1 & 2 become a little bit loopy and you end up with a cursive k. The same is true for almost all of the letters you mentioned. Admittedly, z does have an extra loop, but capital Q is what you get when you don’t draw the whole circle of a Q (you start at 10 o’clock), and draw its tail without picking up your pen).
People with dyscalculia and perhaps others, have a very difficult time with this kind of spatial-relationship knowledge. My husband makes me point when I’m navigating as I get it wrong so often. It is a brain defect (you can actually see it in brain imaging).
The left-right thing has always troubled me a bit. I still remember the first time I caught onto it in when I was four or five. My mom was driving, and asked my friend which way to turn to get to his house. He said left. My mind’s eye still goes back to that turn sometimes when I have to decide which way is which. Both of my sisters have the same minor troubles with L and R.
Perhaps it has to do with my left-handed mother trying to make me left handed when I was little.
The cursive capital F I was taught, back somewhere around the late 1950’s, looks nothing like a printed F. It seems to have gone out of style before cursive itself did – most cursive examples [ETA: that I find on googling] look consideraby different, though they also look to me like they defeat the idea of cursive as I don’t see how they can be done without lifting pen from paper.
Here’s an example of the one I was taught. That example also shows versions of other letters that may be the sort that Doug K.'s talking about.
Wow, I thought I was the only one. :smack:
My mind’s eye did the same exact thing for me as well, for decades. It began when I was 5 or 6 years old, and my frame of reference was looking forward through the windshield of the school bus on Ravensdale Road at the intersection of Saw Mill River Road, looking east. It was the frame of referenced I always fell back on if I got a cognitive block about left and right. Even after 50 years, I remember the exact scene the day the bus “minder” told me which was left and which was right. I remember everything: The color of the traffic light housings, the trees, the pale sunshine of the lightly overcast day.
Great idea!
Speaking for myself though, I’m usually well aware of where the cardinal directions are.
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Accept life’s bumps. Life is bumpy, and a bump from a mosquito bite, a bump from being smacked in the face and a bump from a tumor are not the same bump.
Dropping an empty cup on the floor is not a major disaster. Giving someone who deserves it a “nasty” look is not grounds to threaten to fire them.
I’m surprised that not everyone knows the difference between “I’m surprised EVERYONE can’t…” and “I’m surprised not everyone can…”.
Accept the fact that when two or more people are assembled for a single purpose, the device stays off. I hate it when I’m talking to anyone, their device goes off, and I might as well be invisible. I just walk away. And don’t get me started on people on my checkout line and have to be called to the register because they are on the device, and I have to scream to get their attention when I’m finished scanning their items and need payment.
One customer actually complained that I didn’t let her finish her text before calling her to the register “and the line wasn’t that long.”
People in person should take precedence over your device, but I know I’m fighting a losing battle.
Actually, I was kind of thinking of my husband when I typed that. 
To his credit, he really, really WANTS to know how to cook now but his entire family has always had servants so he has no idea how to plan while cooking. The best example I can think of was the Hello Fresh Incident of 2019.
I had to pick my daughter up at a friend’s house and drop my son at baseball and couldn’t make dinner. I was looking for something easy my husband could manage so I gave him a recipe card and all the prepared ingredients from a Hello Fresh order someone had gotten us as a gift. Total prep time was 45 minutes including prep + cooking.
I left at 5:30 suggesting he start at 6:30 in case we were home by 8:30. Figured that that should give him more than double the time he would need. We were kind of late and walked in the door at 9 p.m. and my husband still hadn’t gotten the food in the oven. He’d been cooking almost three hours and was so frazzled I thought he was going to explode. I haven’t seen him that stressed in months. It never once occurred to me that that experience would be so difficult.
This is interesting to me. I wonder what the specific “failures to grok” are for people that truly have never attempted cooking? I mean, could he learn step-by-step? Seriously, start with boiling water as a first lesson. Then boiling more water and dropping in a handful of pasta during lesson two. Then progress from there.
I know that one of the major hangups for people that “don’t do” laundry is a greatly exaggerated impression of just how easy it is to ruin clothes in the wash. Yes, while things can go wrong, there’s no real concern with setting the water level higher than you need or using too much/too little laundry detergent. And those sitcom scenes of washing machines overflowing with suds onto the floor? Pretty much doesn’t happen (though I’m sure the house has some amusing anecdotes to the contrary).
Actually, I can partially answer my own question here: use of an oven. People that don’t cook often have to be taught and walked through preheating an oven the first few times. No, the oven doesn’t reach temperature right after you punch in “350”. Yes, it’s going to take longer than you think – a good ten minutes or so.** And no, you really *must *wait until preheating is complete before putting the food in.
** Maybe technology has advanced and there are some ovens that do better these days. Don’t know.
True for a few things, but IME not true for most. I put things into an oven at the same time as I turn the oven on all the time. They take a little longer to cook, that’s all.
I think the problem for a lot of novice cooks is actually that they often think they must follow all directions precisely or the results will be inedible. Again, there are a few things that won’t work if you mess around with ingredients and/or procedure; but in most cases you’ll just wind up with a slightly different result, which you might actually like better. And sometimes trying to follow the recipe in every detail will mean that it won’t work at all – I couldn’t get pie crust remotely functional until somebody who knew what they were doing showed me that you can add more water than the recipe called for.
What happened?
I can understand timing going wrong if you get three different recipes from three different sources. With that, you kind of have to just “know” how to time them all to end at about the same time.
But those meal-in-a-box things interleave the steps for all the dishes so that they’ve already done the multitasking coordination for you. Where did it go wrong?
Oh man, that led to **such **an infuriating sequence of events recently.
We were doing an “escape the room” game and rapidly identified one thingamabob in the floor that was very probably a kind screw lock - think like an Allen bolt, only much bigger (and, crucially, way shallower). Then we found an item that I immediately realized could fit that lock. Grabbed the object and tried to use it to unscrew the mechanism, but it was sticky enough and the item kept slipping enough that I figured I must have been mistaken, maybe it was a maglock or something… and told the others something to the effect of “that doesn’t work, let’s leave it for the time being”.
My niece scoffed and picked up the tool to do it herself, as I’m quite obviously an omniincompetent idiot (teenagers, amirite ?). Since I “knew” I was right I didn’t even bother to watch her trying to do it and focused on other puzzles, but my ex did. As it turns out, my niece was trying to unscrew clockwise. When she gave up in frustration, my ex went “here honey, let me do it for you”… and also tried to unscrew clockwise before they both conceded I must have been right all along.
As she confessed to me later she never knows which way to twist and, having watched my niece do it one way and not the other, assumed that was the correct one.
It’s only when the room orgs hinted something to the effect of “are you REALLY SURE that doesn’t work ?” some 15 minutes later that we revisited that particular puzzle…
Putting something in the oven at the same time you turn it on and then baking it a little longer is fine as long as you know how to check whether or not it’s done. But baking times given in recipes are pretty much always based on a preheated oven. So if a novice cook is doing the thing you mention in your second paragraph and following the recipe exactly, and is baking something for exactly 30 minutes because that’s what the recipe said to do darn it, it’s going to come out undercooked if they didn’t preheat the oven first.
And that’s why recipes typically BEGIN with “preheat oven to 400°”. Hopefully, by the time you’re through prepping the ingredients, the oven is the right temp.