Math or Maths: You Decide

That just doesn't add up, Minx

Doctor? wrote:

Rev Big wrote: Hibster, can we have a ruling on the device often used on newspaper headlines in the USA where a comma is used in place of the word 'and'?

Things like

AREA MAN GETS DRUNK, FALLS OVER

or

Sex offender upset by signs on house, car

or

Police believe bank exec killed family, self

You do see examples of it sneaking into UK news websites where syndicated stories are reproduced. I have yet to see it in print in this country.

It's bound to make it over here sooner or later, so an early ruling on it's use would be helpful in dealnig with it when it does occur.

I quite like it, I'd probably permit it if it was up to me.

Dunno what Hibster will rule, but I conject that the first case is acceptable insofar as it refers to a(n albeit unfinished) chain of causality. The other two examples are, of course, another vile rape of the mother tongue by her simpleton whelps.

While I would agree that the last two are jacked up (think it possibly would be better with a semicolon) I think the Brits butcher their language far more than we. Each area of Ingerland needs subtitles trying to understand even the words coming outta thier gobs... let alone know what thier trying to get those funny words to mean

Fit?

Marvin wrote:

hibster wrote: jeff, when your country can pronounce aluminium properly it can have an opinion.

and 'schedule'

and 'oregano'

Boatraceface wrote:

Marvin wrote:

hibster wrote: jeff, when your country can pronounce aluminium properly it can have an opinion.

and 'schedule'

and 'oregano'

spot on

and Herbs

Minx says tomayto, Chris says tomarto!

Project

Prahjekt (American)

Proe.......jekt (Australian)

Boatraceface wrote: and 'oregano'

Just how do the Greeks pronounce it?

Speaking of which, how do the originators of the word "mathematike" feel about dropping the "ematike" off the word, and adding an "s"?

MATHS

"Mathematic or Mathematics?

Math 	[6] 	
		  [20.00%]

* Maths [24] [80.00%]"

Minx wrote: I say maths,

but why all this division

sum times I despair

plus it's nothing we can't sort out over a nice piece of pi

It's a product of our times...

Math gets more than 25 times more hits on Google than Maths, more than 5,000,000 hits.

Maths is endemic to a traditional quaint regional island dialect

http://www.math.com/

http://www.maths.com

to the victor, goes the spoils even if means corrupting a language

Weapons of Math Instruction

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a protractor, a T-square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. The man is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for absolute value. They use secret code names like x and y and refer to themselves as unknowns, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to dis-integrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."

President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."

'gotten'

Wheres the 'couldnt give a fuck' option on the poll

Gazman wrote: Wheres the 'couldnt give a fuck' option on the poll

Yeah, that.

And while I'm at it, for me, it's Mathematics.

hibster wrote: jeff, when your country can pronounce aluminium properly it can have an opinion.

actually, it was called aluminum before aluminium. the american pronunciation is closer to its latin root, alumina (according to wikipedia).

so there.

what about Australia? Let a third continent be the tie breaker of this incredibly meaningless debate.

0_o wrote: what about Australia? Let a third continent be the tie breaker of this incredibly meaningless debate.

No luck there. We tend to go with the British, except for some states where they can't pronounce things like dance, chance, France etc.

I've just "GOTTEN" myself out of bed. I should get off to work "ALREADY".

Oh dear ,i've turned American in my sleep

arithmatics

It's maths.

Period

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

I love you all, but I think I'm going to choose darkness...

that a reference to the band, jeff?

i meant the rather good band "i love you, but i've chosen darkness", not that naff faux metal pub band "the darkness"

El Jarvo wrote:

True dat. Seen.

looks like somebody else turned american overnight.