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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. I am 1 meter 70 tall. [height]

• Thread starter Thread starter twins1
• Start date Start date Jan 2, 2014

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twins1

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Arabic 1- How tall are you? 2-How heavy are you? I know there are different answers but are these answers Ok. 1- I am 1 meter 70 tall. 2- I weigh 60 kilos.

owlman5

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Colorado English-US Those answers look fine to me, twins1. T

twins1

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Arabic Thanks owlman5!

natkretep

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Singapore English (Singapore/UK), basic Chinese In informal speech, you're likely to omit 'tall': I'm one metre seventy and sixty kilos. Well, I can imagine someone saying that - I'm not very metric minded and am more likely to say I'm five [foot] eight and ten stone (140 pounds). S

Smauler

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Ipswich, Suffolk, England British English I used to be exactly 100kg and 2 metres tall... thus making my BMI (weight over height squared) really easy to calculate. Many people in the UK and the USA will not understand metric, though. P

Parla

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New York City English - US Welcome to the forum, Twins. [Are there two of you?] I know what a meter (or metre, in BE) is, but what does "one meter 70" mean? 70 what? Centimeters? If it's 1.7 meters, well, I'd say that (which would be around five feet, seven inches). Sixty kilos is roughly 130 pounds; that sounds about right. P.S.: We wouldn't ask, "How heavy are you?" We'd say, "How much do you weigh?" or "What do you weigh?"

natkretep

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Singapore English (Singapore/UK), basic Chinese

Parla said: I know what a meter (or metre, in BE) is, but what does "one meter 70" mean? 70 what? Centimeters?" Click to expand...

Certainly, in BrE, one metre seventy means 1 metre 70 centimetres. Alternatively, you can say one hundred and seventy centimetres or one point seven (oh) metres. (Informally, you can say, 'He's one seventy', which can be interpreted as a shortened version of 'one metre seventy centimetres' or 'one hundred and seventy centimetres'.) Last edited: Jan 3, 2014 R

Readomingues

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Portuguese - Brazil <<Readomingues's question has been merged with a previous thread>> How can I read the measure in the example below? 'She is 1.70 meters tall.' 1) She is one seventy meters tall. 2) She is one meter seventy tall. Are both correct? May I use the conjunction 'and' like 'one meter and seventy tall" Thank you. Last edited by a moderator: Sep 3, 2014 T

tepatria

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Onondaga, Ontario Canadian English One seventy meters means one hundred and seventy meters. One meter seventy is better, but the most popular way of saying this here is "She is one point seven meters tall." R

Readomingues

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Portuguese - Brazil Thank you. S

Smauler

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Ipswich, Suffolk, England British English That's not the normal way of saying it in England, in metric. "She is one metre seventy", or "one metre fifty four", and when everyone knows we're working in metres, just "one seventy" or "one fifty four". Bear in mind these terms may get confused with American weights if you're not careful. S

sunnyweather

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Polish And what about: He is 185cm tall. (?) or: His height is 185cm. (?)

RM1(SS)

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Connecticut English - US (Midwest) Yes to both.

Hermione Golightly

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London British English Neither is 'incorrect', but in my experience people say 'one metre eighty-five' although the majority of BrE speakers I know, including those much younger than me, don't use metric. So it depends on context.

garbage_cnbeta

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Beijing Chinese

tepatria said: One seventy meters means one hundred and seventy meters. One meter seventy is better, but the most popular way of saying this here is "She is one point seven meters tall." Click to expand...

I read "one seventy meters" from this book, Journey Under the Midnight Sun

Sasagaki craned his neck to take a look at the corpse. Age, he guessed, was about mid-forties, maybe fifty. Height, just shy of one seventy metres, and a little plump for that. Click to expand...

It's a translation book, is that expression OK? I even suspect this book was not translated by a native English speaker. Last edited: Aug 17, 2022

Andygc

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Devon British English As has already been suggested, somebody with a height of one seventy metres would, by a very long way, be the tallest person on the planet.

Tegs

Mód ar líne

English (Ireland)

garbage_cnbeta said: I even suspect this book was not translated by a native English speaker. Click to expand...

I suspect the same. It's not just the "one seventy metres" that's odd in that quote.

Wordy McWordface

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SSBE (Standard Southern British English)

garbage_cnbeta said: I read "one seventy meters" from this book, Journey Under the Midnight Sun It's a translation book, is that expression OK? I even suspect this book was not translated by a native English speaker. Click to expand...

According to your link, the book was translated by Alexander O. Smith, an American who specialises in Japanese-English translation: Alexander O. Smith - Wikipedia The surrounding English seems native, but you are right that one seventy metres is a very odd and misleading way of talking about someone's height. It certainly suggests he was a giant of 170 metres tall! Perhaps he expressed it like that because, as an American, he is simply unfamiliar with the use of metres/meters?

natkretep

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Singapore English (Singapore/UK), basic Chinese

Wordy McWordface said: Perhaps he expressed it like that because, as an American, he is simply unfamiliar with the use of metres/meters? Click to expand...

Yes, he just means centimetres, not metres.

Tegs

Mód ar líne

English (Ireland)

Wordy McWordface said: The surrounding English seems native Click to expand...

Do you think so? I was struck by "and a little plump for that". I would say "at", not "for" there. Last edited: Aug 17, 2022

Wordy McWordface

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SSBE (Standard Southern British English)

Tegs said: Do you think so? I was struck by "and a little plump for that". I would say "at" not "for" there. Click to expand...

I read that phrase as "a little plump for (a height of 1.70m)". The 'that' refers to the height. I would guess that the original said that he was carrying a little too much weight for a man of under 1.70m. I think it's just an awkward translation, rather than a non-native error.

Myridon

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Texas English - US Meters and centimeters seem to be used correctly in the rest of the book. My guess is that at some point the text said "1.70". It was scanned in and the period was lost. It was run through a program which turned digits into spelled-out numbers and it became "one seventy". ("Twenty" is spelled out nearby.) You're reading "one seventy" as one-hundred and seventy, but it may not have ever actually said that. You must log in or register to reply here. Share: Bluesky LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Share Link

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