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OK, listen up rest of the English speaking world!

Aquitaine

Aquitaine

Well-Known Member
Panda said:
Originally Posted by mball1297
Oh, how sad. No, no, listen up. It's math. It's a collective. It replaces "arithmetic". You're welcome. ;)
No it replaces Mathematics. Arithmetic is a sub set of maths.
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Actually no, you're both wrong. It's "that boring subject at school that nobody enjoyed", and Arithmetic is a sub set of Boredom.

:p
 
darkendless

darkendless

Guardian of Asgaard
9-10ths_Penguin said:
Because it's so much easier to do your calculations using 62.4 pounds per cubic foot of water than it is to do it using 1 kilogram per litre or 1000 kg per cubic metre.
And it just makes intuitive sense for water to freeze at 32 degrees and boil at 212. Zero degrees and a hundred degrees? Who can wrap their head around that?
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:p That must be sarcasm or there is definately something wrong with you haha :yes:

9-10ths_Penguin said:
The most annoying conversion for me, though, is for fuel consumption. Of course they couldn't make it a simple coefficient... it had to be a function of the inverse. However, I think the two units give a glimpse into the mindset behind them:

- L/100 km: "I've got to go this far. How much gas do I need to do it?"
- mpg: "I've got this much gas. How far can I go?!"
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As a road engineer im sure it causes you endless headaches :p See we both have practical reasons to be angry with America for causing us inconvenience :)

9-10ths_Penguin said:
Yeah, but even though Mohr's Circle is annoying, it's useful. I don't hold that against the Germans.
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The formulas and concepts of Mohr's criterion were fine. Then he had to go and create a graphic method of demonstrating stress. Although i love Germany, this severed our relationship haha. Not really, but considering i wrote the post about an hour after an exam about mohr's circle of stress i felt it was justified :)
 
monta

monta

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Do you know who is delighted that the US says zee? The English, because it reinforces the idea that you are culturally devoid. So keep it up make the British proud, of themselves :p
 
Panda

Panda

42?
Premium Member
monta said:
Do you know who is delighted that the US says zee? The English, because it reinforces the idea that you are culturally devoid. So keep it up make the British proud, of themselves :p
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Another thing that annoys me is when people think England and Britain are interchangeable. That is like saying that France, Spain and Germany are all interchangeable terms!
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
darkendless said:
As a road engineer im sure it causes you endless headaches :p See we both have practical reasons to be angry with America for causing us inconvenience :)
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I don't have to worry about it professionally; I just work in metric.

Where it bugs me is in car ads. Most American cars will advertise themselves as getting "XX miles per gallon". I usually have to get out my calculator to convert it to something sensible (i.e. metric).

darkendless said:
The formulas and concepts of Mohr's criterion were fine. Then he had to go and create a graphic method of demonstrating stress. Although i love Germany, this severed our relationship haha. Not really, but considering i wrote the post about an hour after an exam about mohr's circle of stress i felt it was justified :)
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It can be helpful to remember something about a lot of seemingly odd things that get taught in engineering and math classes: people didn't always have calculators and computers.

The graphical method is really handy if you don't have a computer but you've got a compass and a scale. Same goes for a lot of the estimation methods that they teach for different things: a lot of the time, they're intended to take something that would be crazy difficult to calculate without a computer and convert it into something "close enough" that you can do in a minute or two with a slide rule.

Panda said:
Another thing that annoys me is when people think England and Britain are interchangeable. That is like saying that France, Spain and Germany are all interchangeable terms!
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Maybe Scotland and Wales should form a support group with all the parts of the Netherlands that people incorrectly call "Holland". You could write a petition. :D

But wouldn't it be more like saying that France and Europe are interchangeable?
 
Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
Panda said:
Another thing that annoys me is when people think England and Britain are interchangeable. That is like saying that France, Spain and Germany are all interchangeable terms!
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Yeah, England is part of Ireland and Britain is part of Scotland, right?
 
England my lionheart

England my lionheart

Rockerjahili Rebel
Premium Member
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monta

monta

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Panda said:
Another thing that annoys me is when people think England and Britain are interchangeable. That is like saying that France, Spain and Germany are all interchangeable terms!
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They are interchangeable face it babe your the queens ***** :p
 
Makaveli

Makaveli

Homoioi
I think it would be better to just rename "American English" to "American." That way we would not have any of these lexical disputes, because the two languages would be different!

And if it hasn't been mentioned, this is not an historical moment, it's a historical moment. We don't have a silent h in American.
 
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