Calculators lolLazyEagle wrote:So all the sine, cosine shite, I kinda remember doing all that.
Tell me, do the relevant tables still come in a little book, or can you use calculators now?
Man, you guys sure have problems.... with other languages there are plenty of different dialects that are even more diverse than those small differences the english ones have between them, its still the same language but people understand each other and tolerate (for the most part) that there are differences, no one runs around telling the other guys how to say something the "correct" way, they just label it the same way you classify, for example; "american-english" and "british-english". Which, if you ask me is a lot more accurate than saying "american", it is after all only a certain branch of the original english and not a whole new language in itself, and one where you can still easily hear that they have a shared origin... not like modern english and high german for example, you'd have to go back and compare old english and old german for them to sound even remotely alike.Supernova wrote:Why do Americans speak English, not American? They're different languages, similar in a few ways. The syntax is largely the same but some of it just doesn't make sense!
"Maths" is short for "mathematics", "math" must then be short for "mathematic".
Just like plenty of other short versions of words, if it's a plural
MountieXXL wrote:not like modern english and high german for example, you'd have to go back and compare old english and old german for them to sound even remotely alike.
http://www.ahajokes.com/eng011.html wrote:The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
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