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karikaririka
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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:14 am Post subject: "two-point-two" |
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when I was reading a book, I met a sentence which I couldn't understand.
"two-point-two children". I looked up the word,"two-point-two" in several dictionaries but I couldn't find the meaning. In the context of the book, it seems that having two-poin-two children is symbolic of happy family.
Could you please tell me the meaning of this word?  |
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Lorikeet
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| It means 2.2, and of course you can't really have 2.2 children. However, if they interview a lot of people, and find out that the happiest ones have X number of children, and then find the average number of children, it could come out to 2.2. |
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karikaririka
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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I got the meaning perfectly. 
You have been a great help to me. |
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