Demigodrick@lemmy.zip to Interesting Shares@lemmy.zipEnglish · edit-24 months ago[Article] Could you pass a Cambridge English exam from 1913?www.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
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minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoFor a moment I read the headline as “in 1913” rather than “of 1913”, and thought to myself, don’t be silly, I wasn’t born then and neither were you. Also, there are a few people alive today who are older than 112, but they might not have been able to take the test, either then or now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people
minus-squareDemigodrick@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoAt some point in the last few years I’ve started to physically feel 112.
For a moment I read the headline as “in 1913” rather than “of 1913”, and thought to myself, don’t be silly, I wasn’t born then and neither were you.
Also, there are a few people alive today who are older than 112, but they might not have been able to take the test, either then or now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people
At some point in the last few years I’ve started to physically feel 112.
So. Much. This.