Yay! I have missed the Q alter-ego (but am very happy that we've been in touch elsewhere)! I should follow your lead and post on luce_cinerea sometime soon, ehy?
Your English is holding up very well, IMHO. There are a few notes i could make re the above, but they're probably not worth it because none are easy "rules".
(...well, except "21th" -- there's a rule there. Any number ending in 1 ends in "1st" for "firST". Any ending in two is "2nd" for "secoND". Any ending in 3 is "3rd" for "thiRD". After that, it goes to "th" for "fourTH", "fifTH", etc. So "21st" for "twenty-firST" is correct.)
Either way, i think you'll do great. If you have any questions, feel free to ask -- and in math and physics, too. Depending on the question, i might be able to help. (For history and art, you're on your own...) :)
[Yay! I have missed the Q alter-ego (but am very happy that we've been in touch elsewhere)! I should follow your lead and post on luce_cinerea sometime soon, ehy
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...you know, sometimes I make the silliest mistakes.
Me, too, often with little things like this. It's hard to remember them all when in the act of writing.
if you're talking of physics, in English there are "speed" and "velocity", that's right?
Yes, it's true. In our physics, we actually had "distance" (scalar) and "displacement" (vector) as well. When i commute to work and back home, i go lots of distance, but end up with zero displacement. (From this standpoint, it's very easy to feel as if i truly am going nowhere...)
We cannot sit down.
Yikes... that would kill me. We did a show this past weekend where i probably spent most of a similar stretch of time standing and/or walking and/or carrying gear around -- and i only had my work boots to wear. By the time we were done, i was dying to sit down...
Give me your mother tongue and I give you all the Italian you want.
Wouldn't it be great if we could just copy the knowledge from each other? Learning takes too long! :) Well, i know English is stupid and difficult, but your English is much better than my Italian, so you've got a head start! :P
if I don't know - for example - what the hell a "limit" is...
You mean this kind of limit:
lim t -> 0
? They're very silly, imho. They're used for precision -- to explain cases where you can't really solve something but you can talk about ways you can get close to solving it -- but they always seem to go away when you start talking about applications.
Integrals aren't so bad, at least conceptually. Again, they should teach what they're for before they teach what they are, but they don't seem to teach that way. :(
I studied art. I studied math since I was 16 years old. It's a tragedy.
I understand. The things i was required to take! Oh, the time that i could have spent in better ways...
[lim t -> 0] YES! Those fucked limits! You cannot know how much I hate them!
[? They're very silly, imho. They're used for precision -- to explain cases where you can't really solve something but you can talk about ways you can get close to solving it -- but they always seem to go away when you start talking about applications.] The fact: I'm not able to calculate something if I don't write numbers. At least letters. Today a friend of mine explain the properties of the limits, a lot of abstract rules. I need numbers and letters, can you understand me? So, I need exercises.
[Integrals aren't so bad, at least conceptually. Again, they should teach what they're for before they teach what they are, but they don't seem to teach that way. :(] I hate conventions. Someone says: "1+1=2" And I ask: "Why? What's 1? Why the hell do I have to calculate the result?" :P It's like the ipse dixit; to put it better: "Someone says that's the fact." (Ipse dixit: he/she said this.) And I ask: "Yes, but why is that the fact
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YES! Those fucked limits! You cannot know how much I hate them!
[Just one English note re use of "fuck" (because i know that, like me, you recognize the high importance of the word). :) The more common derisive adjective form of fuck is "fucking" -- as in "Those fucking limits!" You can use "fucked" as an adjective, but that usually means something is broken (e.g. "My car is fucked.") or very screwed up (e.g. "That whole family situation was fucked."). Anyway, i know you like to know these things. :)]
Today a friend of mine explain the properties of the limits, a lot of abstract rules. I need numbers and letters, can you understand me?
I think so, yes. Limits are one of the most abstract elements of math at that level. Hopefully it wont get too much worse than that.
I hate conventions. ... I don't have confidence.
I understand. I'm like that about other things. I often get asked, "Why do you always have to ask why something is done the way it is? Can't you just accept that this is how it's done?" Well, yes, if i
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[[Just one English note re use of "fuck" (because i know that, like me, you recognize the high importance of the word). :) The more common derisive adjective form of fuck is "fucking" -- as in "Those fucking limits!" You can use "fucked" as an adjective, but that usually means something is broken (e.g. "My car is fucked.") or very screwed up (e.g. "That whole family situation was fucked."). Anyway, i know you like to know these things
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Your English is holding up very well, IMHO. There are a few notes i could make re the above, but they're probably not worth it because none are easy "rules".
(...well, except "21th" -- there's a rule there. Any number ending in 1 ends in "1st" for "firST". Any ending in two is "2nd" for "secoND". Any ending in 3 is "3rd" for "thiRD". After that, it goes to "th" for "fourTH", "fifTH", etc. So "21st" for "twenty-firST" is correct.)
Either way, i think you'll do great. If you have any questions, feel free to ask -- and in math and physics, too. Depending on the question, i might be able to help. (For history and art, you're on your own...) :)
Good luck... and have fun at the clothing shop!
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**hangs head** I am guilty. :)
...you know, sometimes I make the silliest mistakes.
Me, too, often with little things like this. It's hard to remember them all when in the act of writing.
if you're talking of physics, in English there are "speed" and "velocity", that's right?
Yes, it's true. In our physics, we actually had "distance" (scalar) and "displacement" (vector) as well. When i commute to work and back home, i go lots of distance, but end up with zero displacement. (From this standpoint, it's very easy to feel as if i truly am going nowhere...)
We cannot sit down.
Yikes... that would kill me. We did a show this past weekend where i probably spent most of a similar stretch of time standing and/or walking and/or carrying gear around -- and i only had my work boots to wear. By the time we were done, i was dying to sit down...
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Wouldn't it be great if we could just copy the knowledge from each other? Learning takes too long! :) Well, i know English is stupid and difficult, but your English is much better than my Italian, so you've got a head start! :P
if I don't know - for example - what the hell a "limit" is...
You mean this kind of limit:
lim
t -> 0
? They're very silly, imho. They're used for precision -- to explain cases where you can't really solve something but you can talk about ways you can get close to solving it -- but they always seem to go away when you start talking about applications.
Integrals aren't so bad, at least conceptually. Again, they should teach what they're for before they teach what they are, but they don't seem to teach that way. :(
I studied art. I studied math since I was 16 years old. It's a tragedy.
I understand. The things i was required to take! Oh, the time that i could have spent in better ways...
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t -> 0]
YES! Those fucked limits! You cannot know how much I hate them!
[? They're very silly, imho. They're used for precision -- to explain cases where you can't really solve something but you can talk about ways you can get close to solving it -- but they always seem to go away when you start talking about applications.]
The fact: I'm not able to calculate something if I don't write numbers. At least letters. Today a friend of mine explain the properties of the limits, a lot of abstract rules. I need numbers and letters, can you understand me?
So, I need exercises.
[Integrals aren't so bad, at least conceptually. Again, they should teach what they're for before they teach what they are, but they don't seem to teach that way. :(]
I hate conventions. Someone says:
"1+1=2"
And I ask:
"Why? What's 1? Why the hell do I have to calculate the result?"
:P
It's like the ipse dixit; to put it better: "Someone says that's the fact."
(Ipse dixit: he/she said this.)
And I ask:
"Yes, but why is that the fact ( ... )
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[Just one English note re use of "fuck" (because i know that, like me, you recognize the high importance of the word). :) The more common derisive adjective form of fuck is "fucking" -- as in "Those fucking limits!" You can use "fucked" as an adjective, but that usually means something is broken (e.g. "My car is fucked.") or very screwed up (e.g. "That whole family situation was fucked."). Anyway, i know you like to know these things. :)]
Today a friend of mine explain the properties of the limits, a lot of abstract rules. I need numbers and letters, can you understand me?
I think so, yes. Limits are one of the most abstract elements of math at that level. Hopefully it wont get too much worse than that.
I hate conventions. ... I don't have confidence.
I understand. I'm like that about other things. I often get asked, "Why do you always have to ask why something is done the way it is? Can't you just accept that this is how it's done?" Well, yes, if i ( ... )
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Thanks. :)
No problem. :) It has become quite the multifacetted part of speech in American English.
You cannot change anything if you don't understand how something works, isn't it?
Agreed... that's how i like to think of things.
Sooner or later that forum will be bilingual - that day, I'll ask you to write something about North. :)
I could try in Italian and embarrass myself... but if you and Noesis are mentioning it, that's wonderful! Thanks again!
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