Without wading into the weeds of middle school math - LOL! You are a gold mine of good one-liners. Your writing is so erudite, I almost have to believe the hears/here's usage is intentional: Here on Steemit, one often ((here's)) the argument:
I love hearing a conversational tone sneaking into academia - e.g.
The concept dates back to before Socrates, and Aristotle made a big deal about it when discussing logic.
Ha! I love it.
Now, to wade past the weeds of the math, and finish reading....
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@carolkean,
You know what's a bloody good word ... "erudite." We don't use it enough.
The "here's" is a typo. Thank you, I will fix it tout suite.
You hear that @old-guy-photos ... my writing is "erudite" ... "learned, scholarly, educated, knowledgeable, well read, well informed, intellectual, intelligent, clever, academic, literary, bookish, highbrow, sophisticated, cerebral, brainy" ... straight out of the dictionary.
It's not "eclectic, verbose and random"... and Carol did not need to resort to quantum physics to comprehend it.
Thank you Carol.
Quill
Dang. Something tells me I have to start flattering this mysterious entity known as @old-guy-photos who apparently has a vendetta against the innocent apostrophe... how to appease the "old guy," if he's so xenophobic with punctuation... next, he'll accuse me of too many ellipses and maybe threaten to impose Carl Kane's Law: all writers should be alloted only six exclamation points per lifetime - not per page, not per book -- squuueeeee!!! (Yes, my name is Carol Kean, pronounced Kane, but I never met Carl, and he has since died, but I loved his "Write Right" newspaper column on correct usage of English, the abused language.)
Well
its(ok I guess I have to play along "it's") more a question of being lazy rather than xenophobic. Being a moderately slow typistcantcan't we just leave off the precious ' ??? I mean after all, we all know what the word means without it. Just think of all the electronic storage wasted on ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' lol.BTW, I have it on good authority, flattery will get you everywhere ;)
ItsIt's kind of an inside joke, but still rings true!@old-guy-photos & @carolkean,
Carol ... Old Guy. Old Guy ... Carol.
Carol, don't let him fool you. About a week ago ... the Old Guy wrote a poem!!! (There's half my lifetime allotment so you know it's a big deal.) We'll make him one us whether he likes it or not.
Quill
'Tis true, there's nothin' like flattery to get our needs met. Go on, tell me more about my good authority. Oh wait. You ain't said nuthin yet about my erudition and authority. I've a good mind to .... follow ya anyhoo!
@carolkean,
WOMAN ... I gave you co-creatorship of an entire genre of poetry. Your erudition is implied:
Quill
Poetry? Me not poet. You are Sole Authority there, Mr. Quill on Fire! What dreaded punishment is it, accusing me of collaborating on Ambiguous Contraction Poetry (good Lord, after laboring and delivering three offspring, "contraction" is a dirty word) -- ohhhh. Contractions necessitate APOSTRPOPHES. What if @old-guy-photos is actually a woman who's endured CONTRACTIONS?
@carolkean,
Well, Carol, you've got a point there that, to be perfectly honest, I hadn't considered. Perhaps @old-guy-photos is actually a woman. You should, we're told, "never assume anyone's gender."
And, it would explain some "anomalous behavior" I've noticed from time to time.
As a woman, "she" would not be, perhaps, the shiniest of diamonds. But, then again, perhaps, I'm being superficial. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?
So, what do you think? Here's "Old Gal" looking ... a bit butch. But ... butch, like beauty, is subjective.
Belle of the Ball?
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What do you think @dswigle ... you two have been girlfriends forever?
Quill
Oh man, I need to scroll DOWN, I been missin' stuff!
Hmm, I have long known poets are from another dimension, not Im thinking of checking writers into the same group as well lol.
PS I bet you knew what Im means without the added ' lol.
@old-guy-photos,
Methinks the Old Guy doth protest too much. The Old Guy is surrounded by poets ... just a happy coincidence? I think not.
Quill
That one is a classic!