> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:00:51 -0300
> From: Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]>
> To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] ... r13828 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome
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> On 05-08-2014 05:47, akhiezer wrote:>
> > Even in math, 'roots of unity' is about the only at-all common usage:
> > but even then, it's at least as often considered to be sounding archaic
> > and contrived (possibly also pretentious), and is instead expressed as
> > 'roots of 1'.
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> Blame it "mathematics", "especially for non-native speakers", "contrived
> (possibly also pretentious)" are comments that perhaps are valid. As a
You've already taken that "contrived (possibly also pretentious)" out of
context: ref original wording above.
> "non-native speaker", I cannot be sure.
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> journal (not in mathematics, BTW). Incidentally, he was later knighted
> by the Queen. That was the way we all used for publishing papers (again,
(What, being 'knighted by the Queen' ? )
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> Related to this is a complaint by Armin in his usual way that frequently
> makes me feel as being "hit by a brick" (his words). He wanted me to
(Yes, he's a very bad man - maybe even a very very bad man - , and you're
being a very over-sensitive man. If I may say so.)
> replace "for" by "because", to "make it more clear". Again, it was in
I think actually that Armin's phrase was, 'more clearer' ;) :
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>>>> Can we have simpler and more clearer explanations? I don't understand
>>>> half of this sentence (it doesn't make sense in English, at least not to
>>>> me).
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> And what is interesting in this discussion is that from one side the
> text is criticized as not being precise, from the other, a very precise
> expression used was criticized with many different words and sentences
> even as "possibly also pretentious".
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Again, nope re that "possibly also pretentious": ref original context.
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