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- juhls0
The word "maths" makes me laugh, and I'm not sure why.
- me too - its not plural!BonSeff
- mathematics > mathsAntonelli
- you wouldn't call it mathematic.Antonelli
- exactly Antonelli .. bloody americans.. ;-)Nematoth
- It's not really the explanation. It's more how it sounds and "feels" when you say it.juhls
- I know why it sounds ridiculous. Because of the "s" after the "th".juhls
- thats simply because you're used to saying like that. doesn't make it right.Antonelli
- It is maths, if you abbreviate mathematics you have to call it maths.chossy
- lol Nema.. i'm actually an American.Antonelli
- I know, logically, it makes sense to call it "maths". I just mean it sounds ridiculous.juhls
- Most words that have "ths" at the end sound strange.juhls
- not true - not maths it's mathBonSeff
- MATHS. EndNickInfozure
- no- just cause mathematics has an 's' at the end does NOT MAKE IT PLURAL - FFSBonSeff
- Bluejam0
(nice idea - graphically limited) x too much = boredom
- iheartfun0
LOVE IT!
- flashbender0
i enjoyed that
- baseline_shift0
Its good. Got a few lolz out of it.
Kinda bugs me that on the landing page, the image that says 'New Math...' has a slightly different black then the background color.
- hahah @ the background colour.
I noticed it too, and it bugs me as well!flavorful
- hahah @ the background colour.
- bliznutty0
this is creative :D
- boobs0
Do you think pirates are likely to be good spellers?
- boobs0
Pirate ≠ Good Speller
- BonSeff0
There are many 'uncountable' nouns - such as 'rice' 'money', 'information' etc - which are the same in the singular and plural form.
'I had rice for breakfast' obviously means I ate more than one grain of rice.
Mathematics is clearly an uncountable noun - we say 'mathematics was my worst subject' not were.
There are other similar nouns out there - logistics, linguistics - and the question is whether the abbreviated form of these should be 'log' or 'logs'.
The logical abbreviation of the word 'mathematics' would have to be 'math' because to keep the 's' would be to suggest it is a countable noun.
In short, the word 'mathematics' ends in 's' but it is an uncountable noun so the 's' has no grammatical significance and therefore is not necessary in the abbreviated form.
- monies is a wordmonospaced
- nobody said monies was not a wordBonSeff