On 11/8/11 9:24 AM, Michael Shonle wrote: >> we may not study Home Economic, but we also don't study Home Ecs, just > Home Ec, so by the same logic, it would be Math, and not Maths. >hi Mike. nice to see you around. and your logic is impeccable. i just wanted to resort to a base emotional appeal. that always works for me. :-) -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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On 11/8/11 3:47 AM, HardySpicer wrote:> Listen ,we invented the language - we make up the rules! >new zealanders invented English? BTW, if i hadn't mentioned this before, i've always felt that NZ is the most sane anglophonic nation on the planet. certainly less nutty than the US. i came to the conclusion back in the Reagan years when NZ (a member of SEATO) refused docking to a US ship or submarine unless the US would declare that it carried no nukes (which the US would not do). -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Reply by ●November 8, 20112011-11-08
On Nov 9, 3:24=A0am, Michael Shonle <mike.sho...@gmail.com> wrote:> On Nov 7, 8:38=A0pm, robert bristow-johnson <r...@audioimagination.com> > wrote: > > > > > > First learn to spell Maths (plural). You don't study Home Economic do > > > you? > > > mount horse, > > > ride west, > > > "The British are coming! The British are coming!" > > > death to the British. > > > besides all the nasty things King George III done, they butter the wron=g> > side of their bread (as in:http://www.amazon.com/Butter-Battle-Book-Not=able-Classic/dp/0394865804> > andhttp://www.angelfire.com/tn2/minsrecipes/ChildrensCookBookNook/Butte=r...> > ) > > > and they like to study "Arithmetics". > > > ... > > > Then my grandfather said, > > "It's high time that you knew > > of the terribly horrible thing that British do. > > In every English house and in every English town > > every Englander studies numbers, and addition and such > > calling it 'arithmetics'." > > > "But we Americans, as you know, > > when we study numbers," Grandpa said, > > we call it 'arithmetic'. > > That's the right, honest way!" > > Grandpa gritted his teeth. > > "So you can't trust a Brit who calls arithmetic 'arithmetics'." > > > ... > > > they gotta be preverts to be calling it "arithmetics". > > > -- > > > r b-j =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0r...@audioimagination.com > > > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." > > we may not study Home Economic, but we also don't study Home Ecs, just > Home Ec, so by the same logic, it would be Math, and not Maths.Only in the US!
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On 11/8/11 10:49 PM, HardySpicer wrote:> On Nov 9, 3:24 am, Michael Shonle<mike.sho...@gmail.com> wrote:...>> we may not study Home Economic, but we also don't study Home Ecs, just >> Home Ec, so by the same logic, it would be Math, and not Maths. > > Only in the US!so in NZ it's "studying Home Ecs"? -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
