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---- On Wed, 10 May 2006, Andreas Bolka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:

 
AB> Mathematicians talking about functions ...

It's incorrect always everywhere to pluralize a singular
concept. 

A black box PROVIDES function but is a BLACK BOX, not *A*
function.

Again, as I teach my son, "Lazy with words, lazy within one's
mind."

In other words, mathematicians are nescient with respect to
speaking. Any Mathematician is nothing more than a High Priest
of Academia, indoctrinated into the Church of Science through
rites, rituals and incantation. 

By misuse of speaking language, any Mathematician can perform
thaumaturgy.

Thaumaturgy of any kind does not absolve the Mathematician of
being inarticulate.

Pier Johnson




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