is that spelled with an em-dash?

[sev]

If half my guests will be drinking twice as much white wine as red wine, but the other half of my guests will drink 50% more wine total than the first half and will drink three times as much red wine as white wine, what ratio of red wine to white wine should I purchase?

(thirteen bottles of red for each eleven bottles of white, by my math.)






(I did that in pen.)

Comments

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Nope, an en-dash. ;)

(And I wonder where I fit into that equation since I prefer red, and I suppose would drink three times as much red as white, where the quantity of white specified might be .5 glasses... huh. I think I just answered my own question.)

[sev]

editor fight! editor fight!

(you're one of the weirdoes in the second group who neither drinks a lot nor drinks red. people like you (and me) keep the second group from drinking five times as much as the first!)