When a youngster misreads cooking instructions, the slash mark in the notation for the fraction 1/4 turns out to be a recipe for confusion. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Forward Slash Mishmash”
We’ve talked many times about how linguistic misunderstandings can be fun.
There was a post on social media from Gareth P. Jones that I really loved.
It went,
I only realized my daughter was misreading the gingerbread man recipe when she announced that we needed either one or four teaspoons of salt.
Oh.
You know where this is going.
Yeah, I sure do.
He says, I looked and saw that we needed one quarter teaspoon of salt, and by this point I had already added one or two teaspoons of ginger, mixed spice, and cinnamon.
So, of course, she misunderstood 1 slash 4 as either 1 or 4.
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