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   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,_engineerin   
   ,_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/doub   
   ewoven-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 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.   
      
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         Paul   
      
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