time travel for the rest of us.
"All right, I'll just be a minute". You don't really mean 1 minute, or just 60 seconds do you. No it is an expression, not the truth. I am going to coin the phrase "I'll be one Dyslexic minute" and define what it means. This is for fun and or those that hate to lie and can sneak this phrase in to get more time.
What am I going to gain by this? For starters there are 37 dyslexic minutes to the hour not 60. But if you add up all 37 they come to they come to 1314 real minutes. Buying you almost 30 hours an hour. Talk about time travel! I'll learn how to share a spreadsheet off of Google and show the numbers some day. For now read on...
Let's start with the first minute of the hour :01. Dyslexed it becomes :10, you flip the digits. So the first Dyslexic minute of the hour starts at :01 and ends at :10 --- 9 real minutes! The second dyslexic minute starts at :02 and ends at :20 --- that's 18 real minutes long but only one dyslexic minute! If you have not guessed it by now, a dyslexic minute is very context / time sensitive. If the listening party hears "just one dyslex" and they think the real time is :01 but you think it is :02, there has been a time sensitive failure. To solve this slight problem you just remind the listener of the time as you inform them. "It is 12:23, just one dyslex". Now they know what you have said --- probably 9 real minutes.
The simple rules are as follows:
- Numbers like 12 just transpose and move forward on the clock.
- Numbers like 51 flip the hour like this, 12:51 ends at 13:15 and is 24 real minutes long.
- Double numbers like :44 flip the hour and are all 60 real minute long. So 12:44 end at 13:44.
- small:big[6,7,8,9] don't translate to anything and are either not valid or just 1 real minute long. Tell me what you think, too much math can hurt so subtracting from 60 and such is not going to be as welcome. If they just don't count then we can keep the cool 37 minutes to the hour idea above.
Common phrases now heard about town:
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"It was like 2:22 am at the bar when I dyslexed a minute. Then all of a sudden I was in a Taxi going home."
"It's 6:15, I'll dyslex and freshen up in my room then meet you in the hotel lobby. That will enable us to still be on time for dinner @ 7."
