Why is “square Foot” the correct word to “square footage”?
When not speaking German words is quite common: “Bitten gib mir einen Tag Zeit. Why is my mind racing for a day? “, but this is not correct in English! While “Please give me one bottle of/with/… milk” seems correct (isn’t it?) the hyper-linked question got me thinking about area/space/area/family/situation/resource/everything whereas the question mentions a certain percentage of people. If as you said, what would you have? Is
the box occupies nine square feet (5 of it is at 12′′ square)? The floor is a floor of space with 65 square meters. How does it compare with an area in space?
“square foot/meter” is a measure for some area, therefore “an area” is as redundant as “time” in combination with “one day”, but “meter of space” and “foot of space” seem to be quite common according to a popular search engine (which still would not make ungrammatical usage right).
This box occupies seven square feet of area. “The box is 12 feet wide and 88 feet deep.” A problem with “This box occupies seven square feet” is that occupies are often taken to refer to the volume a box occupies. This can lead to a slight cognitive dissonance. What are some examples of where and how space is used in a box in order to indicate the footprint of the box. If “space” or “the floor” are used instead of “area”, the redundancy is lessened as well.
If you wanted to give me a day of your time and I would like to give another day of your time to fix this, what is the best idiom to use in English?
This box occupies seven square feet of area. “The box is 12 feet wide and 88 feet deep.” A problem with “This box occupies seven square feet” is that occupies are often taken to refer to the volume a box occupies. This can lead to a slight cognitive dissonance. What are some examples of where and how space is used in a box in order to indicate the footprint of the box. If “space” or “the floor” are used instead of “area”, the redundancy is lessened as well.
If you wanted to give me a day of your time and I would like to give another day of your time to fix this, what is the best idiom to use in English?
