Ordinal numbers

[Paul Hibbert]

On 2014-07-03, at 12:44 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I had a choice of things to say at that moment:
> 
> 1. "Because I'm a slob who didn't think about that problem." [possibly the only reasons I didn't use this
> one was that it was a bit early in the morning for honesty, and, as a Bulgarian learning English she
> doesn't know the word 'slob']
> 
> 2. "Because I didn't think you would go beyond 'third'"
> 
> Neither of which are frankly satisfactory.

But isn't a teacher's default answer; "Because you need to learn to walk before you can run."?

Paul