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Nov 18, 2008 15:56

1. Yay Obama.  Finally, a president we can be proud of ( Read more... )

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Laughing Out Loud the_rock_star November 18 2008, 22:47:48 UTC
4. I seriously might cry I am laughing so hard...

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Re: Laughing Out Loud supermeg83 November 18 2008, 23:37:39 UTC
It's not a joke! Those two things should NOT have the same name!

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alastria99 November 19 2008, 04:42:03 UTC
...and then try dealing with equations where, not only have we run through all 26 letters of the alphabet we all know and love (upper and lower case), but we've run out of all the common Greek letters as well (upper and lower case), so now you have to figure out what the heck the little scribble is your prof keeps dashing on the board and naming, in his heavy Greek accent, something that sounds suspiciously like xeeta.

Oh. And regardless of the fact that we're using two entire sets of alphabets, lower and upper case, the letters still usually have multiple meanings. Yay engineering!

*shrug* Our language just doesn't have enough words or symbols to represent all the concepts we need to communicate.

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