March 18, 201313 yr How about when a person says " heads up" when some thing dangerous is coming their way ( like a foul ball). Shouldn't you want the person to duck and cover?
March 18, 201313 yr "What they really want to do is close the gap (get their deficit down to single digits)". Well, DUH.
March 18, 201313 yr There is another way to look at it. Using the term 360-degree turn to mean that some has completely turned themselves around. Since 360 is a complete turn around. Now if one has an issue with that phrase also then well it goes back to the original statement. Some may not Agreed, and to take it just a step further. The terms "360 degrees" and "complete turnaround" are synonymous if we are speaking only in the literal sense. Mathmatically, they are the same. But when you are speaking figuratively, the same rules don't apply. When somebody changes their ways and goes the opposite direction, we say they have made a complete turnaround, and figuratively speaking, they have. So, the term "complete turnaround" takes on a different meaning depending on if you are talking about a literal physical action of turning around or the figurative action of simplly taking an opposite path. The problem arises when we are speaking figuratively and we want to say somebody has done a complete turnaround, but we use the literal synonym of "360 degrees" to describe it. Everybody knows what you mean, but it offends the nerd in all of us.
March 19, 201313 yr When someone tells you to turn around, what do you do? Even if someone told me to turn all the way around, I'd still take it as a 180. So when you do the hockie pokie you stop at 180 degrees when you turn yourself around?
March 19, 201313 yr Author Everybody knows what you mean, but it offends the nerd in all of us. Guilty
March 19, 201313 yr I get it. I say 180 but someone else did a much better job explaining why people screw up the term. Not everyone is a nerd ( I am) or thinks on that level.
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