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Randy D

I wonder; is my affinity for mathematics to a math whiz what some people’s affinity for English grammar is to me?

 


  Some people “just don’t get” English grammar. To me, however, it comes quite easily. Conversely, I’m only functionally efficient in the basics of mathematics, the deeper intricacies* of it escape me, I “just don’t get” them. Is the comparison of the disciplines and how they manifest themselves in me and in others some type of allegory or symbolization?

*Algebra
Advanced Geometry 
Calculus
Trigonometry
Etc.


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Posted - January 18, 2021
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  • 44232
    I guess I am fortunate...I 'get' both. There are lots of things I don't...like 90% of the 'Jeopardy' categories.
      January 18, 2021 3:39 PM MST
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  • 52936

     

      I “get” about 60% to 75% of “Jeopardy!” categories. 

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      January 18, 2021 5:34 PM MST
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  • 44232
    Species of weasels...16th century biblical scholars...famous Turkish Jews?  Gimme a break.
      January 18, 2021 8:00 PM MST
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  • 52936

     

      That’s why I didn’t claim 100% nor even more than 75%.

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      January 18, 2021 8:15 PM MST
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  • 10467
    Dang that be a lot of fancy words - English grannies, alligators, converts, inner cities, man-feasts....  Y' know, it'd been a whole lot easier if you just said - "y'all think I'm as weird as that there other guy?".   
      January 18, 2021 4:10 PM MST
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  • 52936

     

      LOL, yer dern tootin’!

      January 18, 2021 5:28 PM MST
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  • 3684
    I am like that - I have always found words far easier than maths!

    I don't, by the way, see how Algebra, Geometry, Calculus etc. can be treated as different disciplines. I have always been taught them and seen them as different parts of the single discipline called Mathematics; and there are many connections between them.

    Indeed, little of any of them can be carried out without algebra; trigonometry depends on geometry and algebra, and so on.

    After all, if you study Physics, then optics, electricity & magnetism and theoretical mechanics are still all Physics. This post was edited by Durdle at February 6, 2021 6:17 PM MST
      February 6, 2021 3:23 PM MST
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  • 52936


      Banana, banana, banana, banana.



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      February 6, 2021 6:17 PM MST
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