Minus one ➖

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• variants@possumpat.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A live human body and a dead human body have the same number of particles. Structurally there’s no difference.

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• exanime@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My son is really into math and died laughing when I sent him this meme

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doctor means “to teach.” MDs need to stop using it (unless they work for a teaching hospital) and we wouldn’t have this problem.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem mostly arises in English. I speak several other languages and all of them have a separate word for doctor(phD) and doctor(healer or whatever). I never understood why it is that way in english.

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    • Ghostie21@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Prior to the start of modern medicine there was massive distrust with anyone who tried to treat people, as many of these were scams. When MDs started to actually understand health they started cooping the term doctor to instill trust since people knew that meant the person had been professionally educated, then they also managed to get laws passed so while anyone could call themselves a healer, only trained professionals could call themselves MDs. Eventually, doctor came to mean MD in English instead of PhD.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s the same confusion on French and Spanish, that’s a lot of people covered already.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Physician

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Minus two

  But…what… I’m the mathematician and I’m pretty sure your friend dying is just minus one.

  Minus…two…

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This just means minus one person due to death, right?

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• Missmuffet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  07

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Haha! Fucking wrecked.

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