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Someone living in Sydney (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546796) and using "maths" in the Commonwealth sty
by eesmith 2y ago
Someone living in Sydney (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546796) and using "maths" in the Commonwealth style (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280463) decides that someone like my foreign-born father who became a US citizen as a teenager, was wrong to think he's an American?
Bless your heart.
- pestatije 2y agoThat's very cool...I don't get the "maths"'s Commonwealth style, do you have any links to enlighten me?
- eesmith 2y agoMost members of the Commonwealth - Canadians excepted - say "maths" while North American English uses "math". https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/math-versus-maths-how-americans-and-brits-deploy-the-collective-noun.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/math-versus-maths-h... An Aussie chastising an American for being insufficiently American enough should put their cork hat back on and drink an ice cold Foster's.
- pestatije 2y agoYeah yeah sorry if I touched a nerve
- eesmith 2y agoIfpology acknowledged. "Word to the wise: If you say “sorry” and then immediately follow it with a conditional word like “but” or “if,” you’re headed in the wrong direction." - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/im-sorry-you-feel-that-way-apology_n_5acd47e5e4b06a6aac8cce67 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/im-sorry-you-feel-that-way-ap...