Cancel culture is what you get when the village gossip moves to the city and is awarded a degree that didn't require higher maths.
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Every time I hear "maths" I chuckle...and yet I'm sure over here on the other side of the pond we amuse you guys also, but...
"maths" π π
It's my only "tell", I think. π
it's mathematics
not math
stupid american
Well, not quite...
You see, "mathematics" is a study - a discipline - a singular item.
You study mathematics, just like you'd study physics (or medicine, or history) - they're all singular.
By saying "maths" you're implying plurality where none exists. The original noun is singular, and therefore the correct abbreviation should also be singluar--i.e., "math"
listen, american
mathematics is shortened to math
when you americans say "math" you mean "mathematics" no?
well, in british english, we keep the s to remember that it's a constellation of disciplines
for example, mathematics has several well known parts:
arithmetic (aka number theory)
algebra (symbolic logic)
encoding (language and cryptography)...
and so on
also, in british english we don't say "do the math" this is a very vague statement
we made an estimate
we calculated the odds
we made a guess
part of the reason why we hate this "do the math" expression so much is because it's so vague, and so indicative of the poor quality of education that until the last 30 years was mostly confined to the soviet union and the usa
Let me know when your quality of education gets your quality of education gets you one of these #/media/File%3AStarship_S20.jpg)
would you shorten statistical mechanics to stat mech or stat mechs?
That's only one topic. There are various mathematics.
see, the problem is that the governance of USA and USSR was all about making workers who were smart enough to do their job and dumb enough not to think about why they were doing it
this is an example of how that was embedded into the language
i wouldn't shorten such a narrow field name, how often am i gonna talk about it?
Well said. Well said.
Where as Council Culture is this... https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=1CAzwewVjZ0
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Oh I knew I'd stir up a hornets' nest with that one! π
To each his own, YMMV, etc.
We can each peacefully coexist!
(But it's "math") π
it's math in 'murican
because most 'muricans can't hardly even do arithmetic, so they can't comprehend such things as algebra and symbolic logic and statistics and chaos theory and theoretical physics and engineering, computer programming, am i leaving something out
YES that's not an exhausting list of all the types of mathematics there are
but ooga booga math
I think we have talked enough.
Gentlemen,
Pistols at dawn.
Who will be second?
I nominate #[4] for the Muricans and #[5] for Europe.
If I must, I must.
A man of honor.
Naw, just dumb enough to think that dueling with pistols is almost kinda fun. π
And I'd be honored to have nostr:npub1q6ya7kz84rfnw6yjmg5kyttuplwpauv43a9ug3cajztx4g0v48eqhtt3sh join in the process!
Will this be the standard 10 paces, or??
(Wait--doesn't that count as "doing maths"?)
LOL
Go out in a blaze, like Galois
ah yes, now, see, you don't call it physic or chemic or biologic tho and "math" is short for mathematic surely or why leave off the s?
in slavic languages they say them that way chimika biologika fizika these are not plurals, same as they say electronika like we say ... electronics!
ich danken nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl auf deutsch auch doch? alein amerikaneren
Auf Deutsch = Mathematik bzw. Mathe
i wonder who came up with this silly distinction anyway, there is so many simplifications in 'murican english, almost like they want muricans to sound stupid to englishers
Englishers tots smartier than Muricans. π―
Few.
practically all the americans i have known online couldn't spell even american english way
Well, I'm half and half, so I guess that means I can half-spell.