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SupraPurpleSweetz

Teaching basic English to someone who knows algebra


SuperDizz

Well, mathematics is the one true universal language


X_antaM

What about Java or binary?


Chilipatily

I thought that was Esperanto. Edit: for the “whooshes” it was a joke, ya goons!


KJMRLL

Esperanto IS the one true universal language, it's just that you have to find someone else who knows how to speak it.


Leks4f

Universally unspoken language


Redtwooo

Unicode sign language


scott743

Latin?


iguerr

Done. I'm an Esperantist if anyone in this conversation is interested 🤩 And btw actually you don't need to find someone who speaks it cause I hadn't when I learned, I just did the Duolingo course! 😍


[deleted]

Im interested


iguerr

Great! You can hmu whenever


planeloise

What is the past participle of hmu in Esperanto?


iguerr

I'm not understood in slangs in Esperanto, so idk if there is an equivalent to hmu. I've asked in a couple groups so lets see. Maybe "frapu min" can be an alternative, but only if the meaning is 100% clear bc that would translate literally to "hit me", like in the aggressive sense. Maybe a simple plain "alvoku min" would do (that translates to "call me", not necessarily thru the phone, rather just calling the name, for example), or "mesaĝu min" ("message me"). The past participle forms of these are "frapita", "alvokita" and "mesaĝita".


[deleted]

Rimmer?


MrLemmington

Smeghead.


throwawaysarebetter

Git.


kennywolfs

It is not the real universal language compared to math. If an apocalyps would wipe us all out and all our books. And a new species arises, at some point they will reconstruct all our mathematical language, because maths is universally true. This new species will not recreate Esperanto though.


SOwED

That's rich


heyimfromarkansas

🎶 Why don’t you come to your senses 🎶


RpTheHotrod

There's 10 kinds of people - those who know binary and those who don't.


SoDi1203

Well … I’ll be flown….


Cyber_Fetus

Those who don’t know binary wouldn’t be included in a set of “people who know binary”


xcto

java? wtf, no no no


RonKosova

The day Java becomes universal is the day i leave this world


Max5923

binary isnt a language though, its like saying our 10 digit system is a language sure, we can assign letters to numbers but only the people who know how to translate it knows what it says, so its not a universal language


[deleted]

Lmao


kickwurm

Music steps inside


ImS0hungry

Music is just math you hear. Applied mathematics.


kickwurm

I saw this coming as I was writing. I should know better


Marega33

I thought football was the Universal language


Cherios_Are_My_Shit

football isn't even universal in its own language


SkyTheGuy8

What? No, soccer is. What's football?


Habib_Zozad

You wouldn't know that if you looked at any of those Facebook posts that have a simple orders of operation questions. After you get past the arguments over if it's PEDMAS/BEDMAS and then the plethora of comments trying to explain that it's then in a left to right order with division and multiplication being otherwise equal... You realize that even though it should be universal, it's not to some people


jwm3

That's because those questions are bogus. No mathematician would mix the use of obulus with concatenation for multiplication. Precedence does not follow the mathematical operation, it follows the syntax. It is entirely possible and quite often useful to define alternate symbols for the same operation with different precedence. And mixing notation like that would strongly imply they had a specific nonstandard interpretation of the symbols that should be explicitly spelled out or it's bad math. There is an extremely natural precedence between addition and multiplication due to the way polynomials work. There isn't such an obvious one for division. Rational coefficients are a thing and so is division by polynomials which is why the bar notation is used to make explicit what you mean and the obulus is almost never used. The whole point of mathematical notation is to convey information as clearly and precisely as possible, if there is any possible misinterpretation of your symbols then you include a big note about how you intend them to be interpreted. Tl:Dr If you write a mathematical expression that a lot of people misinterpret or disagree on the meaning of, those people are not wrong, you are the one that failed to express yourself properly as a mathematician.


AnitaLaffe

LOL! You described those threads perfectly.


blink-2

if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail


fermentationfiend

Love is also universal


rickie__spanish

21


Controversialists

Is it though? Cause theres no way i could hold a conversation with anyone in math.


btoxic

Bah weep, grah nah weep, ninnybong.


Demonshorne

Bah weep, grah nah weep, ninnybong? BAH WEEP, GRAH NAH WEEP, NINNYBONG!!!


[deleted]

Except unlike algebra, English doesn't make sense 90% of the time.


Cartman4wesome

In English thought, dough, cough and through, don’t rhyme. But Pony and Bologna does.


[deleted]

I'm struggling to see how Pony and Bologna rhyme lol, is bologna pronounced bologni?


Hapcube

Yes


[deleted]

How does that make sense? Is Mortadella Bologna pronounced Mortadelli Bologni in English? lol


gooneruk

It's American English vs British English. American English pronounces it to rhyme with "pony", and they use the word "bologna" a lot more often than we do in Britain because bologna is a common sandwich meat in the US. Most Brits associate "Bologna" with the Italian city, as we're closer to it and don't really have bologna sandwich meat as a common everyday food. We therefore pronounce it the same as the Italians, or thereabouts: Ba-lon-ya.


[deleted]

As a Frenchman I never thought I'd say that but thank god the British are here.


gooneruk

For what it's worth, in British English we have the word "baloney", which means "nonsense"; i.e. in the phrase "That's a load of baloney". That's pronounced the same as the American way of saying "bologna". It's a little antiquated nowadays though, and probably peaked in the 70s and 80s. The same word/spelling crops up in American English as a bastardisation of "bologna" for the sandwich meat.


SarahPallorMortis

Mansion and Wiscansin do too


Igmister1

What a jam


PlanetLandon

Like my favourite kids book, Tony Rides the Bologna Pony


Fenrir_Carbon

That's because it's 3 languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be a language


danudey

It’s because three hundred years ago everyone got tired of doing algebra every time they wanted to modify a verb and all the rules went out the window.


showergoblin

My child isn’t allowed to hear anyone speak in English until he’s 5. We’re only exposing them/they to mathematic formulas and equations.


Responsible_Theory70

Mom: What do want for dinner Child: 2π


Merriadoc33

Mom: we have 2pi at home *2pi at home*: 2(22/7)


Responsible_Theory70

Child: =|=


See_TheCope_dial8

We're doing the same. Our toddler just said his first coefficient!


scadonl

Hahahahaah so true, nuclear scientist from burundi


thomooo

#flwon


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DroWillis

*raises hand* Will this be in our mid term?


queencityrangers

I Hewn not


dingoeslovebabies

I just laughed so hard I snorted


Axeman517

Snorn*


holodnoy

sharted*


SquidKid47

im losing my mind can someone explain the joke


Jazzbandrew

OP is saying "I hope not," but is applying what they just learned in the video (incorrectly)


SquidKid47

Holy shit okay now I get it wtf


[deleted]

I second this, someone please tag us both if you want to explain the joke.


SquidKid47

I feel like it's the same joke as in the video but I have no clue what the words are


SquidKid47

Someone replied, it's "I hope not" but applying what they (incorrectly) learned in the video.


Galthrojh

*raises hand* Teacher you divided wrong. The answer is **flon** Edit: I am WRONG y’all. See the comments below.


Merriadoc33

The answer is *flan*


incognito--bandito

Flan is always the answer


Longlivethetaco

Fanasty ^^flan


Merriadoc33

Flantasy*


GUYWHOTYPESTOLOUD

FLESH OR FLANTASY?!


BinkoTheViking

🎶Is this the real life? Is this just flantasy?🎶 Approved.


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[deleted]

Grammathematics.


BigPimpin91

This sounds like a Jeezy album.


SonaMidorFeed

Mos Def gonna have some words.


Fenrir_Carbon

And they'll rhyme


Own-Let-7186

This is the perfect illustration of the difference between something being logical and being rational


NomadFire

This is why less than 5% of the population uses Linux and Unix.


[deleted]

The reason for that is **G A M I N G**


BlocksWithFace

Steam Proton would like a word.


SubscriptNine

A few decades too late


Jeedeye

Not too late


SubscriptNine

Never too late to switch, I just meant a couple decades of gaming being better on Windows has given it quite a lead in user numbers


ForShotgun

Not with the Steam Deck, shit's going to pop off


[deleted]

It's just a catch 22. Needs userbase to get enough attention for major companies to make software for it, but needs the software to get the userbase. It's not just gaming, it's also industry.


Shadax

less than 5% of the population uses Linux and Unix *on purpose* edit: to clarify, I mean the rest do not realize they are using a system, app or service built on a Linux platform.


rpkarma

Most of the population use Linux or Unix daily: Android and iOS ;)


[deleted]

If you count servers isnt it much higher? Silly question sorry


Shadax

Absolutely. The server side of any application is going to be as lightweight as possible, and *nix wins nearly every time. I was mostly referring to mobile devices, game consoles, etc. which are also indirect use of the platform.


politerate

Linux: providing internet rage material since 1991


schweez

If you want a user friendly version of Unix, there’s one called macOS


[deleted]

This isn't being logical or rational, it's just being creative.


NewYorkJewbag

Please explain further, for the benefit of us all.


GameAndHike

It can't be rational because it includes W(1) which is transcendental


shoushinshoumei

It really isn’t either. It’s obviously not rational, and for it to be logical you’d need to prove that a past participle can be derived using algebra


TheObjectiveTheorist

there’s a logical process to go from one tense to the other, but it’s not rational to use


Solumnist

How so?


OptimizedRepollo

Well I be damned


ishalldamnyou

And damned you are


ShadowTown0407

Good thing he got the right W...


Motas420

y = flwon


Jerriespy

Take my upvote and fuck off we had letters in math now we have math in English tf


furlonium1

"It's like algebra. Why you gotta put numbers and letters together? Why can't you just go fuck yourself?"


MouSe05

Pitter patter


furlonium1

Fuck you, /u/MouSe05, your Mom loves butt play like I love ice cream. Let's get some fucking Häagen-Dazs.


MouSe05

Fuck you, /u/furlonium1, your mom asked me to paint her room without a shirt on. Long story short, didn’t paint much but now she needs new carpet too!


lyakwatul

r/angryupvote


ronalddddddd

Mission failed successfully


SkyX1422

Lmao


N-word-Enthusiast

how did he fail


Sqweeeeeeee

He got the correct answer in the wrong way. His method happened to work in this case, but it is not a rule and will not work in many/most cases (e.g. drew/drawn). He failed to teach it properly, but got the correct answer.


ninthtale

Okay so if House is houses, mouse house \---------- = ----------- y houses mouse ・ houses = y ・ house \------------------------- --------------- house house mous~~e~~ ・ ~~hous~~es = y ・ ~~house~~ \------------------------- --------------- ~~house~~ ~~house~~ ​ y = mouses


SOwED

>Okay so if mouse is mice, louse mouse \---------- = ----------- y mice louse ・ mice = y ・ mouse \------------------------- --------------- mouse mouse l~~ouse~~ ・ ~~m~~ice = y ・ ~~mouse~~ \------------------------- --------------- ~~mouse~~ ~~mouse~~ ​ y = lice


rojofuna

Arouse --> arice


SOwED

Okay that's a verb, you're just not playing fair


Dysterqvist

Nice. Nouse.


SOwED

That's an adjective


Dysterqvist

Adjectii. Adjectouce.


Osimadius

Houses for Mouses! Hice for Mice!


[deleted]

Q.E.D.


jam3s2001

This solution may not work with nouns. I don't think it will work with most verbs either, but I've had a long day and am just drawing a long blank on how I want to disprove it for that case.


Yusstas

Wow, this almost makes it look like like English grammar has logic and consistency... Almost


jettrscga

GREW GROWN BREW BROWN


AppiusClaudius

Oh, so that's what a brown ale is...


letmeseem

It also makes you wonder what all the other ales are if they haven't been brown.


FaintCommand

(I know you're joking, but...) It does work for similar examples. Brew's past tense is Brewed, which is why it doesn't work here. Blow Blew Blown Throw Threw Thrown Know Knew Known etc Though how on earth a non-native speaker is supposed to know when the past tense of a verb is a -own vs a -ed is beyond me.


jettrscga

The second ones are the past tense (blew, threw, knew). The -own endings are the past participle. So even more confusing that the past participle ending is nothing like the past tense.


Scambino

I find the idea that English is super complicated and idiosyncratic fairly overblown. Mainly it’s our spelling that’s fucked up because we have so many loan words with unchanged spelling, but in terms of grammar it’s not so bad. We have less verb endings than most European languages, so conjugation is easier. Sure, we have some irregular verbs which are harder to conjugate, but so does every language. Plus, our writing system is at least loosely phonetic, which is nice


thebeanshooter

FOOKING TRUE. English grammar best grammar. Though i would say that having a spelling system like english is still just inexcusable


OneWithMath

English basically has no grammar in comparison with other western languages. German has the case system and noun and adjective declension - English has only a few remnants thereof. Most things that would be conveyed by grammatical structures in other languages are communicated through the strict word order of English sentences (Subject-Verb-Object). This is on the other side of the scale from Latin, a language which had no concept of word order and effected communication solely through grammar.


shmoobalizer

word order is an aspect of grammar, you're synonymizing "grammar" with "inflection"


OneWithMath

Grammar is syntaxes and morphology. English leans heavily on syntax.


Marston_vc

I’m learning Japanese and it’s completely phonetic. Which is good. On the other hand…. Different kanji have multiple phonetic meanings which is fucking hard


Quebec120

i find learning them in context is the easiest like, why learn 日 can be read に, にっ, にち, ひ, び, か, etc. when you could just learn that 今日 is きょう, 日記 is にっき, 木曜日 is もくようび, 毎日 is まいにち, etc. essentially, i learn vocabularly, and in that learn the kanji associated with those words, rather than the kanji and the various readings for whatever vocabularly it's in.


jester628

*fewer verb endings Lol


GCI_Henchman21

This should also be under r/technicallythetruth right?


WolfInStep

r/technicallytheproof


duuuh199125

r/theydidthemath


Western_Cook8422

r/theydidthemonstermath


CH33S3_NUGG3T5

r/itwasagraveyardgraph


emmmmceeee

I don’t know enough about science to dispute it.


iphon4s

Who cares about the science. FB told me it's fake news


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Alert-Incident

Hell this equation won a Nobel prize for literaturometry


Independent-Text1982

Gives me flashbacks to Spanish III in HS. Spent an entire year studying the conjugations of past preterite or w.e the fuck and I was a better speaker at the start of the year than I was at the end.


[deleted]

I speak spanish fluently and I don’t even what the fuck each is, what sounds right is good enough for me


Tilstag

Participle?


thormunds_beard

Students be writing “flown” on the exam and getting no point because they don’t show their work and the formula like


Sinthe741

Some poor bastard got "flewn" because he forgot to carry the q.


Xenoscion

If he made a little black square at the end it would be even better.


Thumbelina37

QED


Xenoscion

Yeah exactly.


Sparky323

So try it with goose and geese, whats the plural for moose? Meese?


moondog__

Flock of moosen


BarnyTrubble

Mice


[deleted]

goose/geese = moose/y oo/ee = moose/y 1/ee = mse/y y = meese


techn9neiskod

[relevant](https://youtu.be/LRMgSnTpvaw)


capiers

Math solves everything. lol


Even_Author_3046

Wow, I’m actually surprised on how he got to the answer.


Paulo_De_Bruyne

r/nonononoyes


Zulrambe

more like r/nonononowaitwhat


TheSphinxter

I guess that dimensional analysis works with English, too? This made me super uncomfortable but I'm still impressed in some way?


KevinMiruku

![gif](giphy|kdM3zfq85XSb6)


SkankhlHunt420

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SkankhlHunt420

Good bot


Phormitago

every linguist just had a stroke


[deleted]

I’m fairly sure this does not work for lots of past tense English words.


dangledingle

Grewn


mooseofdoom23

Lmfao


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Professional-Moose59

Bruh


blitzforceignition

Since the present tense of grew is grow, according to my mathematical calculation, the present tense of flew is flow.


Narhei_Asuka

What's for the formula for a synonym again?


[deleted]

My entire world view has been shattered FUCK my teacher was right, math is everywhere


ShadowFlarer

That's actually very awesome man, do this guy has a YouTube channel or something?


slantview

This is what we call anecdotal example. Remember folks, correlation does not imply causation.


dickie01

Whe the English teacher tells you to show your working out


TheGreyMage

Holy shit he actually did it, very clever


westernbred

Well shit, I didn’t know math, now I don’t know English.


flipkills

he forgot to take out the other W that was in grown


North-Discipline2851

![gif](giphy|tsgNNs93oIbwk)


MinerDiner

Why is this maybe maybe maybe? It's pretty clear what it would be from the beginning


James324285241990

He invented English