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> "You don't want to teach this lecture? No? Ok. But you DO want to tell a Greek guy how to write Greek? grin" - Dr Ioannis Alexandrou A person who knows Gree
by aleph_minus_one 4y ago
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"You don't want to teach this lecture? No? Ok. But you DO want to tell a Greek guy how to write Greek? grin" - Dr Ioannis Alexandrou
A person who knows Greek quite well once told me that I wrote some Greek letters wrongly. From her (linguistic) knowledge perspective about the Greek alphabet, she was surely right, but some Greek letters are very commonly written somewhat differently by mathematicians than by people who know Greek.
In this sense: I know quite well how some Greek letters are nearly always written by mathematicians, which can be a little bit different from how they are written by people who know Greek.
- alias_neo 4y agoI understand how that can happen. This was as a simple case of, the lecturer had written a lowercase omega, and this guy was ignorant of Greek having a lower-case alphabet full-stop.