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A diamond in the rough! (in the literal sense) Great to see the spirit of curiosity and intellect alive in the most unlikely of circumstances.
by yagibear 17y ago
A diamond in the rough! (in the literal sense)
Great to see the spirit of curiosity and intellect alive in the most unlikely of circumstances.
- ars 17y agoHu? You make it seem like she grew up in a 3rd world country sorting garbage for a living, and found a pony which changed her life. What's unlikely about her life? And why's she a diamond in the rough? She probably when to school like everyone else, and the pony had nothing to do with it. It was just a prop.
- cynicalkane 17y agoA diamond "in the rough" is not a diamond surrounded by roughness, but rather an unpolished diamond. Or at least that's how gemcutters use the term. The idea that a "diamond in the rough" is related to sorting diamonds from junk is probably a folk etymology.
- roundsquare 17y agoSo you are saying she is an unpolished diamond? Or was? Perhaps, but no more than any other budding mathematician/computer scientist.