A number is a sufficient answer when the question asked for a specific unit. It's clearly years when he got asked "how many years". This is a dumb meme and the bot that posted it should be ashamed of itself.
The meme went completely over your head man, the point of the meme is that teachers would count you points off or verbally do the same thing as the meme even in questions where the unit of the answer was implied by the question.
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· 3 years ago
Yea, not where I come from though. Tbh though, it's been a long, long time since I went to school.
It hasn’t been long since I was in school, but I agree darkness - we were taught that a number is sufficient and considered “a full sentence” when supplied as an answer.
“How many years?”
“Eight.”
Remember: English doesn’t follow its own rules.
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· 3 years ago
This appears to be more a question of the teacher's attitude, rather than following any logic or rules. In germany teachers are not actually respected by their students, not even in my times, so whatever they say and do is questioned a lot.
Are they really teachers then??? But I think its peculiar that you say that. German was my first high school class ever (period 1, day 1) and I respected my teacher greatly, he was a good educator.... and German and English are sobling languages, but German seems significantly more detailed and structured whereas English seems like more of a free for all.
“How many years?”
“Eight.”
Remember: English doesn’t follow its own rules.