• ssjmarx [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                That's base four.

                Our counting system is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and we call it base-10.

                Theres is 1 2 3 many. Many would be 4, so I called it base 4.

                Humans wrong. Trolls count in base-many.
                -T. Troll

  • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    95% of big science words are there because if you used the perfectly reasonable common word it could get confusing quickly, since there might be 10 slightly different things in your field that could all be described as such and you need to distinguish them. And God help you if you try to communicate between even closely related disciplines, who even use different mathematical notation conventions.

  • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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    2 years ago

    Biology researchers....my brother in christ, do we have to know all these words just to get through your paper?

  • Hawke [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You know how how common people confuse socialism and communism? Imagine that for sciences.

  • eXAt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have had to read a bunch of archaeology papers recently, because of them I have encountered the word “palimpsest” for the first time.

    I have also encountered it 10 times because of these papers.

  • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    pol pot wasn’t wrong to kill annoying pseudo-intellectuals, he just got carried away

    see: bigoted libertarian professors justifying objectivism with 50 page thesis papers

    • kot
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      5 months ago

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