56 potatoes. What stem?

56 potatoes are digital stalks, which come from a joke: my wife asked me to buy 56 potatoes and scolded me when I came home. She asked me to buy five or six potatoes, but I bought 56.

Our Chinese is extensive and profound, and sometimes we want to save effort and reduce sentences appropriately. Buying five or six potatoes is hard to say, but buying five or six potatoes directly can make the meaning clear. In spoken English, we can't confuse May 6th with May 6th, but there is no need to write it down. There is nothing wrong with writing Chinese characters, but if you write Arabic numerals, you must add a pause (five to six equals five plus six). Therefore, when writing, it must be standardized, otherwise it will make a joke.

Application:

Educational significance. You can take this stalk and tell everyone humorously that the writing of numbers must be standardized.

Preheat the site. You can tell this cold joke when friends get together and feel bored.

When I was a child, I also liked to cut down some key words in sentences, but there were not many cases where such cut words caused ambiguity. For example, if I tell my aunt that I am thirsty, I will say, "Aunt, I am thirsty." Although there won't be too much ambiguity when both people know what happened, she will correct me and let me add a subject, because it's not that she is thirsty. Five or six potatoes, tell the parties directly, without any ambiguity.