I understand that in Europe it's "addition" but that therefore changes the order of the mnemonic and therefore in America the answer is 42 while in Europe it's 30
In post 22, ActionDan wrote:They taught me to spell fish like "phish" in 2nd grade and they told me that was how it was spelled
I have a similar one. I spelled the Portuguese version of October (Outubro) as Octo
m
ber (Outu
m
bro) because my teacher told me that before a B or P there is always an M. She neglected to inform us that it was
just in case
we were in doubt between N and M, not just randomly add a letter before B/P.
I also know a person who, as a kid, was told the name of the letter H in Portuguese, and then tried to read a word (let's say "hour" for the sake of translation) with the H-name--creating an abomination like "aitchour". (H is "agá", the word in question was
Am I the only one who learned it as BODMAS?
Brackets
Of
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
“Leftover lady, let alone the strongest to be subdued.
If I only had the magic key that would unlock the realms to the plateau of the highest me.
Even though I’ve been badly bruised, living in a house to become a popular muse.”
"I, too, would prefer to know the Xalxe of my demise." - Felissan, 2022
- On this day in history: mundanity, and terror, and food, and love, and trees -
“Leftover lady, let alone the strongest to be subdued.
If I only had the magic key that would unlock the realms to the plateau of the highest me.
Even though I’ve been badly bruised, living in a house to become a popular muse.”
I never remember what the Of is actually for, since we never really use it anyway.
Could be exponents though.
“Leftover lady, let alone the strongest to be subdued.
If I only had the magic key that would unlock the realms to the plateau of the highest me.
Even though I’ve been badly bruised, living in a house to become a popular muse.”
In post 44, RichardGHP wrote:If we used captchas instead of maths problems we could avoid this.
We use both, and it's not stopping the spammers
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In post 44, RichardGHP wrote:If we used captchas instead of maths problems we could avoid this.
We use both, and it's not stopping the spammers
That's why I'm here.
“Leftover lady, let alone the strongest to be subdued.
If I only had the magic key that would unlock the realms to the plateau of the highest me.
Even though I’ve been badly bruised, living in a house to become a popular muse.”