One of my Gran's sayings was "No knowledge is ever wasted", so here's a couple of things I've learned over the last few days:-
Had an optician's appointment over the weekend, and took the opportunity to clarify exactly what long-sightedness and short-sightedness is, and the answer is that the "long" or "short" relates to what you can see clearly. So a long-sighted person can see distant things (long) clearly, but the closer anything is, the more blurred it becomes, and a short-sighted person can see close things (short) clearly, but distant things are blurred.
And then as a result of watching a programme about the Simpsons, I now know that Matt Groening's name is pronounced "Greyning" - as he himself puts it "to rhyme with complaining".
Had an optician's appointment over the weekend, and took the opportunity to clarify exactly what long-sightedness and short-sightedness is, and the answer is that the "long" or "short" relates to what you can see clearly. So a long-sighted person can see distant things (long) clearly, but the closer anything is, the more blurred it becomes, and a short-sighted person can see close things (short) clearly, but distant things are blurred.
And then as a result of watching a programme about the Simpsons, I now know that Matt Groening's name is pronounced "Greyning" - as he himself puts it "to rhyme with complaining".
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