On an idle afternoon ...

I was going through some old mails, while looking some important information and found this exchange of mails with one of my friend. This happened during one of those days when I had no work (sometimes I miss those days) and that can lead to conversations like this.
(Can't name my friend but my friend is BA so using that as identifier)

BA: Lunch @ 12:30??

Tarun: Am or pm ???
Oh … at am it wont be lunch …
Ok change of ques …
What will u call a meal at 12:30 am??

BA: That would be 00.30 not 12.30!....

Tarun: Oh railway time …
But the question was something else ….

BA: I don’t think a meal at that time has any name associated with it….as ppl generally are sleeping at that time.

Tarun: So what there must be some people sleeping now …
That doesn’t mean, we will not eat…
Eating has nothing to do with other people sleeping …
Remember Eat cricket … sleep cricket … drink Coca Cola!
But what if I don’t have coke at 00:30???

BA: When these terms came into existence…long long ago…….
certain fixed timings of eating were followed…………
ppl never ate at any time……yes things have changed now…..but these terms have not…..

Tarun: Ya .. those must have been good days …
That’s why they are called good ol days ….
People changed with time … but terms didn’t change with time ….
Is that why we still see *Terms and Conditions apply everywhere????
Terms have not changed I got it .. can you throw some light on Conditions.

BA: Terms in case of ‘terms & conditions’ is different

Conditions

• In contracts, the terms are the details of an agreement, often the amounts of money.

Language unit

• In terminology (the study of language terms), a "term" is a word, word pair, or word group, that is used in specific contexts for a specific meaning.
  • Specialised terms are characterised as technical terms, or sometimes terms of art.
  • Figures of speech and shorthands are called terms of language.
  • A term (mathematics) is a basic component of a mathematical expression. In the context of a polynomial it is a number and variables all multiplied together. Similarly, like terms are terms that have the same variables to the same exponents.
  • in mathematical logic, a term is a particular combination of symbols from a formal language, that in turn are the units that make up the formulas of that language.
  • In type theory, "term" is used for the linguistic constructs.
  • In traditional logic, term came to mean a referring expression, but only through the Latin terminus - margin, (so that terms were 'terminal for analysis').

Tarun: Oh the light (blue) you have thrown is really good…
Now I can understand your condition ….
Condition of people have improved over time … we were apes long time back …
but we are humans now !!!
Leave this let's go and have lunch I am feeling hungry…

I thought while going through :
1. boring day at work.

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