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Sheep πŸ‘ (mander.xyz)
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[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

"As verbs the difference between sheared and shorn is that sheared is past tense of shear while shorn is past tense of shear."

Thanks, internet, you're very useful.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

A sheer waste of time, you say?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

At least its not read and read

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There once was a comment I read
it made me get up out of bed
In the toilet I peed
Til my bits start' to bleed
And from that day I no longer read

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Potato potato.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Shiela sheared sheep by the sheep shorn.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.

Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it

Edit: oh the screencap is older than a decade lol

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sheep: πŸ‘

Sheared Sheep: πŸ‘

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.

…I don't know why that's surprising to me, since they're just Unicode, but it is.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

πŸ‘ŒπŸ»

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How did you italisize an emoji?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

That's a fine transformation.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I just checked and every single textbook I own that contains a reference to this transformation uses an image of a sheep. Sadly all of my textbooks are in English. If I had any relevant texts in German or Spanish I doubt that they would makes this connection.

On an less relevant note one of the books introduces the idea of change of basis with a joke about labeling axes and has several different types of ax with corresponding labels attached and I find that to be a much worse joke.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess because it’s absurd you’ll remember it easier.

Kind of how people can recall a deck of cards by placing a person doing an action to an object (PAO) in familiar places. It’s the absurdity that makes you remember.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The reason it's easier to remember for humans is a double edged sword. If you accidentally type in text fields which don't mask input, it's easier to memorize for someone paying attention.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since you're multilingual and I assume English isn't your first language.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

English is my first language. Ax and axe are used interchangeably. They're both correct.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

just for you!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey, it's the only thing I remember from linear algebra! That's the longest living sheep ever.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He done shown me shorned sheared sheep!

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