I am amused that people are now claiming they knew all about the duration of time notations after all, rather than be thought ignorant.
Because many of them did. But because you used the system
wrong, no one could tell what you were doing. Don't confuse people trying to figure out what
you're ignorantly doing with people not understanding how the world works.
Yes, some people were amused by what could have been interpreted as thirty-five inches. That's because that's pretty much the only modern use for ″.
And yes, we can see you trying to say you're still somehow smarter than everyone else. That seems to be what it's all about for you.
Whilst it is true that technically speaking ' and " correlate with minutes and seconds as we know them today, it is also true that they have been used for hours and minutes...
You
claim this. You've been asked to show evidence that anyone else besides you has ever used it this way. You cannot produce any, so you don't get to say it's true.
Further, you refuse to answer how this could possibly function as a standard under the rules you propose. You ignored examples of when context would fail to disambiguate the statement. You admitted that the feet-and-inches marks worked in absence of yards because the meaning of the marks never changes. Your claim
cannot be true.
...and I would even say the latter was more informally common than the former, from my experience.
And we're back to you just making stuff up. You can't produce any evidence that it was
ever used that way, much less that it was more common.
I get that my experience is not everybody's experience.
You can't show that your claimed experience is
anyone's experience. And the claim that it was informally acceptable at your school wasn't even your first story. At first you claimed using ″ only for seconds was some U.S. standard that was interloping upon your "correct" usage. You claimed it was a universal standard that couldn't be misinterpreted under any circumstances. The only reason you're now emphasizing "in my experience" is to make it harder for others to refute you.
The whole point of using symbols to represent something is that the symbols have to be the experience of more than one person, and ideally the agreed-upon experience of all involved parties. Watching you flail around trying to talk out of both sides of your mouth isn't nearly as amusing as watching you undermine the whole notion of convention in order to keep from having to say, "Oops, sorry, I thought ″ meant minutes."
It has been interesting to note that the majority of people had no idea it was to do with a sexagesimal system so hopefully the topic will not all have been in vain.
Are you literally trying to claim that "the majority" of people didn't know there were 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in a degree or hour? Are you literally so vain as to believe you taught them that in this thread?
And no, primes notation is not inexorably tied to sexagesimal divisions. The two are dissimilar concepts.
