Comment on Maths

slurpinderpin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • felbane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    There should be a trail of Us that have fallen off the ship.

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    • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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      Source: www.instagram.com/nathanwpylestrangeplanet?igsh=M…

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      • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        The rightmost one? The last of Us.

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        What about Z and S??

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      colour> color

      spourts > sports

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• Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Because it’s the short form of “mathematics”

  Although typically I’ve seen the UK call it maths and North Americans call it math.

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  • RandomWalker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Is the ending s kept on abbreviations of other singular words ending in s? Or is that unique to maths?

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I would say we disagree with the premise of the question. Mathematics is not a singular noun. It’s a plural. It’s the field of all mathematics. Therefore you preserve the “s” because you abbreviate the singular and re-pluralise it.

      So somebody in the UK might (not commonally) say “it’s a math(matic) concept”, but more likely to say “it’s a concept from math(ematic)s” or “it’s a mathematical concept”.

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      • RandomWalker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        That’s interesting. What about talking about it as a subject? Would you say maths are my favorite subject in school?

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    • Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      To the best of my understanding, mathematics isn’t referencing a singular object but is used as an encompassing term to refer to content from multiple schools of mathematics e.g. geometry, statistics, calculus, algebra etc. Or in other words, all the subjects covered in math/maths class! 😊

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• mranachi@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I prefer mafs

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  • Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Maphs could be used here too…

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    • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There’s more than one type of math. Would you say physic?

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  • PrimeErective@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Or sport?

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      C m8 they’res only 1 kinda reel sport nd thats footie.

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  • onion@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Germans do

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  • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yeah I get it, but I’m more curious why it’s said differently?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You should be asking yourself that. ;)

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    • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      There’s usually a long explanation for these types of things which most of the time boils down to “because that’s how people have been saying it and it’s become the norm.”

      Many linguistical mistakes have been overused to the point of them changing their meaning. Take “decimation”. It used to mean to kill 1 in every 10. Because it sounds cool and has been used in a lot of media, it now mainly means to kill or destroy a large part of something.

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      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        The meaning of “siege” has gone from sitting outside a castle or town until everyone starves to just about any kind of military action involving a building. Probably partly because the Iran embassy Siege off the 80s was endlessly represented on TV by footage of the SAS breaking the siege by abseiling through the windows.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Do you guys also say Geographies? Or Histories? Do you take Arts classes? You take Physics, do you also have Chemistries and Biologies?

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• d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Let me go count all my Lego.

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  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Lego is the only correct version though, it is defined by the company that created it so its not ‘open to interpretation’ imo.

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    • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I agree with you. A sheep and some sheep are the same to me 😂

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