[conspire] Numbers racket

[Tony Godshall]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 8:34 PM Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

> On 4/27/20 10:25 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > To use a less rural metaphor, if I have a dime, and I then trade my dime
> > with your dime, I'm not bothered by the substitution, because even
> > though one of our pockets might be grungier than the other, at the end
> > of the day dimes are fungible.
> >
> > Deirdre would have won the bet, but my objection was that the meaning of
> > 'fungible' doesn't work in your sentence.  You probably meant something
> > like 'debatable'.
>
>
> I have never looked this word up and I only know it from my ear, and
> from the context.  I always thought it was like fudging something, which
> co-locally means like your making fudge, without a recipe.  :)  The
> accountant fudged the numbers and made the business seem profitable even
> when it was actually losing money.
>
>
The usual example of something that is fine fungible is money.  That would
be the most common context one is likely to encounter.

Not at all fudge-like.

Fudgeable is something totally different, like when you are trying to cheat
on your taxes or encage in p-hacking.

Perhaps a spelling error caused your issue?


What do I know.  I know nothing.


No comment.



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