Tang it means taste or odour in this context (as in tangy). If I didnt know the word already, I'd get a decent dictionary and try out the various meanings. It's pretty easy to figure out which is the correct one given the context (if you're human).
Mathematics is a science - indeeed, a collection of sciences. Fundamentally, it is the study of number, form and space. Mathematics did not (and generally does not) start from a set of axioms although many have tried to impose purely axiomatic systems upon it. And yes, it is used by many other sciences just as other sciences employ one another to achieve their end (though to a lesser extent than maths is used).
"a true scientist should take every pain possible to include *everything* if they want their work to be useful to the engineer"
Well, it depends what level of understanding you expect the engineer to already possess.
and i was just wondering, how easy is it to come up with 100 words that i know, all different, all starting with the letter a. Pretty damned easy:
aarvark
animal
antelope
ant
a
at
antler
aeroplane
astroid
airport
apple
able
active
aid
aids
ape
abalone
actuary
acuity
acute
angle
amble
ambulance
ambulatory
avenue
aisle
asp
ash
and
android
anaphatic
artery
aerial
acrobatic
after
all
away
aquatic
aquiver
azimuth
awol
awry
awe
awestruck
awesome
awkward
away
await
awning
awake
aetiological
aimless
area
arrear
around
aura
aurora
article
arm
army
ark
arc
arch
archway
arcadian
arctocephelus
arctic
antarctic
anarchy
arf
artist
artistry
articulate
artisan
arcade
arcane
amend
amenable
armenian
amen
aminosity
axle
axolotl
axiom
axis
axe
aviary
avian
avionics
adjust
ajar
agar
admonish
abide
ability
abject
abtruse
abdomen
abduct
ablate
Hmm, if I can do that for 13 more letters, and find fifty each from the remain 12 letters, there's 2000 already. And that's clearly a really crappy way of finding which words I know. So yes, I'm happy to continue to believe that I know tens of thousands of words. Come to think of it, isn't there a french grammar book listing 501 verbal forms? I'd bet an educated native speaker would know most of them. Wow, the richness of language really is incredible, no?
I know that different forms of the same word are called the same for these purposes. Though there must be some argument around how irregular forms are counted. But go ahead and count the unique words in your post - something like 100. I maintain that is very small portion of the words you know. Google "average vocabulary size" and you'll see that common estimates are in line with figures I state.
And yes, I agree that it is hard to learn more words as a adult second language speaker and you'll probably have way less than a native speaker. Word use frequency is a classic long tail problem - a few words account for a large part but the rest all come from the massive long tail. A standard small french-english bilingual dictionary typically has 50000 entries and it is always frustrating how many words are missing.
The "wordcount" link I gave you was does distinguish between different forms of the same word so the numbers there are inflated so its not surprising that I recognised something like half the words around the 80000 mark.
ok, start counting if you like - how many unique words did you just use? Probably something near 100 - and you're saying that represents a significant portion of the words you know? Ridiculous.
Check out this site http://www.wordcount.org/main.php which ranks words by usage - hopefully you'll be up near 20000 before you come across a word you dont know.
It's true that you can get around reasonably well in a second language with a basic vocab of 1000 or so but it will be rather dull. So carry on working on the French - learning 10 new words a day is a good target. Crepuscule, ecume, marais... there're plenty of nice words to learn.
Every time an Allofmp3 story comes up someone trots out these lines. The point is that, despite all the name changing, it was impossible to pay allofmp3/alltunes/mp3sparks so they were effectively out of business (except as a non-moneymaking service to those who already had a credit with them)
Given a scholar or monk fully trained up in literacy and languages may have had a vocabulary of only 3000-4000 words! And your average person had less, and most often could not write or read proficiently.
You're just making this up - people have far higher vocabularies than that now (50000+ is standard for an educated english speaker) and there is no reason to believe that an educated person back then didn't know a lot. A 6 year old kid knows about 6000 words. There are a lot of things to name out there, you know.
Looking in the competition rules, I was surpised to see that:
Residents of the province of Quebec in Canada are ineligible to participate. Residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Sudan are also ineligible to participate.
Who said that science is limited to the physical world?
It makes perfect sense to talk about whether or not mathematics is ahead of some physical science in a particular field: in this case, it is. In other cases, like many parts of biology, it clearly is not.
It think you have to understand that the object of mathematics includes but is not limited to the physical world.
And the theorem you are talking about actually states that a sphere can be cut into finitely many pieces and then reassembled into a larger one. The inifinitely many pieces argument is simple - think of the unit shpere each point multiply the radius by some constant c to shrink or grow the sphere.
The use of irony here is figurative, as defined in the Oxford english dictionary:
fig. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things.
SGI might well have believe that they were the natural commision for this sort of work. Events (as you describe them) haven't turned out like that and it all comes together on one day. The cruel irony of it all.
First, someone needs to initiate a change. Remeber that the "international community" is simply made up of sovereign countries. Treaties and agreements can be renegotiated.
Second, the cost of aviation fuel is but one cost to flying. Planes need airports and the uk govt and local govts are falling over themselves to expand airports throughout the country (new runway at heathrow, anyone?) A curb on airport expansion would slow the growth in numbers flying.
That sounds like one terrible cup of tea. How about using loose leaves and letting it brew for the recommended time (3-5 minutes)? That'll taste much nicer with fewer tannins. And the optimal temperature of the water is not 100C but closer to 95C for black tea so as to preserve the more delicate flavours (so i remeber hearing from a reputable source). And try holding back on the milk a little.
As you point out, gay has come to mean uncool or crap (or whatever) because it means homosexual. Gay still means homosexual. So you are asking people to accept that a word which denotes their sexuality also denotes general crappiness. It seems very much like how, as a child, we would use "jew" as a derogatory term: to jew money etc. I had no idea what jew meant in a broader sense, but when I found out, I realised how insulting it was to a people to use the word in that way. I think the use of gay to generally denigrate something is similarly insulting. That you know some gay people who use this term doesn't make it acceptable.
The legal action has seen The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail shoot up the Amazon.co.uk bestseller chart from number 173 at lunchtime, to 102 by 2.30pm and was at 53 late this afternoon.
It strikes me as kinda sick that there is any legitimate buisiness in human body parts. Whatever happened to simply donating body parts where money only enters the equation to cover costs?
I think I'm right in saying that those countries where people are paid to give blood have a less stable blood supply and the blood they do get is of lower quality (more likely to be from a sick person) than those countries which rely on altruism for their blood. Won't it be the same with other body parts?
That is a ridiculous argument. Punishing a company for being negligent is exactly what stops other companies being negligent (whether the punishment is handed down by the state or from consumers). How do you suggest this guy who had a loan should have been diligent?
He realises this very well. You are basically calling the guy old and ignoring his argument, apparently not even reading the article. From the article:
Apologists will argue that language isn't static, that it's ever-changing and evolving. That's true. Language does change. Idiomatic English is the product of centuries of social and cultural infusion, a fact that gives modern-day English much of its color and flair.
But when change does violence to the accepted standards of the king's English and takes the mother tongue into the realm of the unfathomable, as does almost all jargon coming out of the technology and business worlds, it's our job as keepers of the grail to drive it back into the dark little hole from whence it came.
Just because things always change, it doesn't make all change good.
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Tang it means taste or odour in this context (as in tangy). If I didnt know the word already, I'd get a decent dictionary and try out the various meanings. It's pretty easy to figure out which is the correct one given the context (if you're human).
Mathematics is a science - indeeed, a collection of sciences. Fundamentally, it is the study of number, form and space. Mathematics did not (and generally does not) start from a set of axioms although many have tried to impose purely axiomatic systems upon it. And yes, it is used by many other sciences just as other sciences employ one another to achieve their end (though to a lesser extent than maths is used).
"a true scientist should take every pain possible to include *everything* if they want their work to be useful to the engineer"
Well, it depends what level of understanding you expect the engineer to already possess.
Just to make sure a strange word usage is not perpetuated, I thought I'd point out that myths are not "perpetrated".
Hmm, if I can do that for 13 more letters, and find fifty each from the remain 12 letters, there's 2000 already. And that's clearly a really crappy way of finding which words I know. So yes, I'm happy to continue to believe that I know tens of thousands of words. Come to think of it, isn't there a french grammar book listing 501 verbal forms? I'd bet an educated native speaker would know most of them. Wow, the richness of language really is incredible, no?
And yes, I agree that it is hard to learn more words as a adult second language speaker and you'll probably have way less than a native speaker. Word use frequency is a classic long tail problem - a few words account for a large part but the rest all come from the massive long tail. A standard small french-english bilingual dictionary typically has 50000 entries and it is always frustrating how many words are missing.
The "wordcount" link I gave you was does distinguish between different forms of the same word so the numbers there are inflated so its not surprising that I recognised something like half the words around the 80000 mark.
Check out this site http://www.wordcount.org/main.php which ranks words by usage - hopefully you'll be up near 20000 before you come across a word you dont know.
Here's a discussion with references of average vocab size: http://unauthorised.org/anthropology/anthro-l/augu st-1996/0436.html
It's true that you can get around reasonably well in a second language with a basic vocab of 1000 or so but it will be rather dull. So carry on working on the French - learning 10 new words a day is a good target. Crepuscule, ecume, marais ... there're plenty of nice words to learn.
I tried on several occasions and had no luck at all. From what I read, my experience was typical over the last few months.
Every time an Allofmp3 story comes up someone trots out these lines. The point is that, despite all the name changing, it was impossible to pay allofmp3/alltunes/mp3sparks so they were effectively out of business (except as a non-moneymaking service to those who already had a credit with them)
Given a scholar or monk fully trained up in literacy and languages may have had a vocabulary of only 3000-4000 words! And your average person had less, and most often could not write or read proficiently. You're just making this up - people have far higher vocabularies than that now (50000+ is standard for an educated english speaker) and there is no reason to believe that an educated person back then didn't know a lot. A 6 year old kid knows about 6000 words. There are a lot of things to name out there, you know.
OK, so it's not "intensive purposes", it's "intents and purposes". Makes a bit more sense, no?
PLease tell us why you'd want to have that many web pages open. It seems an awful lot.
Looking in the competition rules, I was surpised to see that:
Residents of the province of Quebec in Canada are ineligible to participate. Residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Sudan are also ineligible to participate.
Is Quebec the next target for regime change?
Who said that science is limited to the physical world? It makes perfect sense to talk about whether or not mathematics is ahead of some physical science in a particular field: in this case, it is. In other cases, like many parts of biology, it clearly is not. It think you have to understand that the object of mathematics includes but is not limited to the physical world. And the theorem you are talking about actually states that a sphere can be cut into finitely many pieces and then reassembled into a larger one. The inifinitely many pieces argument is simple - think of the unit shpere each point multiply the radius by some constant c to shrink or grow the sphere.
The use of irony here is figurative, as defined in the Oxford english dictionary:
fig. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things.
SGI might well have believe that they were the natural commision for this sort of work. Events (as you describe them) haven't turned out like that and it all comes together on one day. The cruel irony of it all.
First, someone needs to initiate a change. Remeber that the "international community" is simply made up of sovereign countries. Treaties and agreements can be renegotiated.
Second, the cost of aviation fuel is but one cost to flying. Planes need airports and the uk govt and local govts are falling over themselves to expand airports throughout the country (new runway at heathrow, anyone?) A curb on airport expansion would slow the growth in numbers flying.
That sounds like one terrible cup of tea. How about using loose leaves and letting it brew for the recommended time (3-5 minutes)? That'll taste much nicer with fewer tannins. And the optimal temperature of the water is not 100C but closer to 95C for black tea so as to preserve the more delicate flavours (so i remeber hearing from a reputable source). And try holding back on the milk a little.
As you point out, gay has come to mean uncool or crap (or whatever) because it means homosexual. Gay still means homosexual. So you are asking people to accept that a word which denotes their sexuality also denotes general crappiness. It seems very much like how, as a child, we would use "jew" as a derogatory term: to jew money etc. I had no idea what jew meant in a broader sense, but when I found out, I realised how insulting it was to a people to use the word in that way. I think the use of gay to generally denigrate something is similarly insulting. That you know some gay people who use this term doesn't make it acceptable.
take a history lesson, troll.
The legal action has seen The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail shoot up the Amazon.co.uk bestseller chart from number 173 at lunchtime, to 102 by 2.30pm and was at 53 late this afternoon.
It strikes me as kinda sick that there is any legitimate buisiness in human body parts. Whatever happened to simply donating body parts where money only enters the equation to cover costs?
I think I'm right in saying that those countries where people are paid to give blood have a less stable blood supply and the blood they do get is of lower quality (more likely to be from a sick person) than those countries which rely on altruism for their blood. Won't it be the same with other body parts?
Why the hell are people modding this up? The submitter is not the story - and the parent is just a cut and paste anyhow.
That is a ridiculous argument. Punishing a company for being negligent is exactly what stops other companies being negligent (whether the punishment is handed down by the state or from consumers). How do you suggest this guy who had a loan should have been diligent?
No, you read the details and see that modern usage has it that "begs the question" is in fact correct in this circumstance.
Sorry, the quote ends at "... from whence it came." The final sentence is my own comment