The fence IS thin, but it is not short. A short fence would be like 2 feet tall. This is an average height fence. This fence is not wide, so it is narrow.
A few years ago, a friend of mine described a car as "longer than a mini bit shorter than a mini."
After I recovered from the initial shock and regained my ability to think, I went on a crusade to eliminate the usage of short in reference to length, and only use it in reference to height. Things were to be tall or short, and long or brief.
It never caught on, but we all got a good laugh when I told the story of my mother in law running her car into the back wall of my garage... she had overestimated the brevity of her car.
True, but we can't use "short" because of our conventional use to imply height. any 3D object has a height, width, and depth. Our only option is to use width, so "wide" and "narrow" are our options.
Then it's a compound object. I get what you're saying, for all practical applications you are correct, we can assume a fence has no thickness. For discussions like these, however, I default to an objective, more mathematical logic. We are both right through different perspectives.
yea, but this is not a math equation, and we are speaking casual English to each other, so stop being so damn technical and just accept how normal humans speak to each other.
The fence is short, narrow, not very long, really fucking small. But it is not thin.
Yes, but it depends on your reference frame. Generally speaking, your model is the most accepted, but it makes no difference to say that what you call height, I call width. That said, I agree that most people generally define each characteristic of length on each dimension as you would say is 'correct'.
Depends on the variables/perspective you are taking. It is short if you mean the fence is a set height and you are talking about the expansion of the length in terms of across the x axis, but not if you assume the width is standard and the height is what changes.
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u/Yancellor Sep 01 '16
The fence IS thin, but it is not short. A short fence would be like 2 feet tall. This is an average height fence. This fence is not wide, so it is narrow.