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   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:58:03 -0500   
   Paul  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 1/27/2026 3:59 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > > On 26/01/2026 11:43 pm, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > >> On 2026/1/26 11:13:59, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > >>> On 26/01/2026 2:01 am, R.Wieser wrote:   
   > >    
   > >    
   > >    
   > >>>>> Isn't language fun!   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Almost as funny as math.  :-(   
   > >>   
   > >> Well, I enjoy it. (Can't really help it in my family - both parents were   
   > >> language teachers and brother works for the dictionary.) And I do enjoy   
   > >> _some_ maths (UK spelling!) too.   
   > >    
   > > As much as it grates on me, I can, sort of, accept the Yank 'Math' ... I   
   mean the full word IS 'MathematicS' and, if you were going to truncate it by   
   dropping the tail-end, then ALSO dropping the 's' makes sense ..... but it   
   sounds so awkward!!   
   >    
   > If you were on campus, you would soon get used to acronyms   
   > and abbreviations and shorthands.   
   >    
   > Such shorthands are more popular with STEM students. Hahaha.   
   >    
   >    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineer   
   ng,_and_mathematics   
   >    
   > You can learn many things at university, but a common joke when discussing   
   > what courses to take, would be "Have you considered Basket Weaving...".   
   > See, there really is such a thing. But that would not be shortened   
   > to Bask101. I think you can imagine how such a persons office at   
   > work would be decorated when they graduated.   
   >    
   >     https://carleton.ca/indigenous/avpii/wp-content/uploads/do   
   blewoven-baskets-1200x900-1.png   
   >    
   > I had an applied math professor, where the office he had, had farm tools   
   > in it. A piece of a plow. Various odds and ends you might find in a barn.   
   > We never asked the guy what that was all about, because the   
   > conversation "might become uncomfortable". And you wouldn't   
   > want to be chased down a hall, with a pitchfork. He was one of   
   > my favorite characters because he could derive *everything*   
   > from first principles. He would start at 10AM with a yellow   
   > pad of quad-rule paper, and derive Greens Theory, and for the   
   > 1PM class, he would put a solid ten pages of notes on the   
   > blackboard (in one hour). In other words, he did not work from "canned   
   notes".   
   > The ink was still wet at 1 PM.   
      
   I recall a tale from my Applied Maths tutor, that Green himself   
   re-invented his stuff daily, after a hard night on the booze and   
   the miller's daughter.    
   Tales like that livened up maths lectures a bit.   
   >    
   > I had to buy a special "high speed pen", just to keep up with him   
   > on note-taking. That's one class you could not arrive with your   
   > Rapidograph (that's a favoured tool of Physics students).   
   > That kind of pen is just too slow.   
   >    
   >    https://bijansartstudio.ca/product/koh-i-noor-rapidograph-a   
   tist-and-technical-pen-1-0-50/   
   >    
   >       Paul   
      
      
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