I love it when I stumble across incredibly human moments like this in textbooks in the wild. It really brightens my day because it reminds me that a person (or more usually, people) wrote this hefty tome.
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Drewmeister@lemmy.world 2 days agoI think “mating” is more effective. A minor double-take means you’re more likely to remember it. Besides, textbook writers should be allowed to fit in jokes where they can; their work seems dry as hell.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Bingo.
This way of doing it is more clever.