- #36
- 19,456
- 25,438
1KM=1Gtopsquark said:On a related note: KM for kilometers.
-Dan
1KM=1Gtopsquark said:On a related note: KM for kilometers.
-Dan
At least it is not completely wrong. I mean, applying them leads to a break (in the sense of Newton's first law), doesn't it?jrmichler said:I see too much of stopping the car by applying the breaks.
its/it's ;)HowlerMonkey said:How about auto correct worldwide losing it's mind trying to deal with almost anything scientific?
Bandersnatch said:Astrology and cosmetology.
fresh_42 said:That actually happened to Lise Meitner:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/collection-of-science-jokes-p2.847743/page-8#post-5717287
Here is one especially for you:gmax137 said:that one drives me crazy.
On my crazy meter, it is right up there with "ect." As in, "bring your own paper, pencils, pens, ect."
Ick, I see "ectoplasm" everytime I see "ect."
Its a membre of the family of mispeled words ending in "say": heresay, neighsay, soothesay, gamesay, ect.fresh_42 said:Here is one especially for you:
View attachment 316599
At least it isn't in Webster. I checked, I expect any linguistic accident to be the new normal nowadays.
Perhaps once a student know this, he or she just gives up and starts winging other foreign-looking names too ...The surname Chebyshev has been transliterated in several different ways, like Tchebichef, Tchebychev, Tchebycheff, Tschebyschev, Tschebyschef, Tschebyscheff, Čebyčev, Čebyšev, Chebysheff, Chebychov, Chebyshov (according to native Russian speakers, this one provides the closest pronunciation in English to the correct pronunciation in old Russian), and Chebychev, a mixture between English and French transliterations considered erroneous. It is one of the most well known data-retrieval nightmares of the entire mathematical literature. Currently, the English transliteration Chebyshev has gained widespread acceptance, except by the French, who prefer Tchebychev. The correct transliteration according to ISO 9 is Čebyšëv. The American Mathematical Society adopted the transcription Chebyshev in its Mathematical Reviews.
You forgot Karl Schwarschild ...fresh_42 said:Rune Elmqvist
Søren Sørensen
Christian Møller
Ole Rømer
Søren Hjorth
Carl Friedrich Gauß
Hermann Graßmann
Erwin Schrödinger
Guillaume François Antoine de L'Hôpital
and not to mention how often I corrected Reimann to Riemann!
... and shall I dicsclose that Celcius actually used his scale the other way around?Orodruin said:You forgot Karl Schwarschild ...
You mean like, "aptasaurus?"Klystron said:Currently updating my knowledge of dinosaur science and vertebrae paleontology by reading new books. Spelling and remembering names for species and groups, let alone pronouncing them, remains problematic. Not only does taxonomy include difficult to spell proper names as mentioned in earlier posts but applies pseudo-classical Latin conventions that vary enormously from the Latin I learned as a child.
Unpronounceable names exacerbate the inherent difficulty of learning about extinct animals from the spotty fossil records and early misinterpretations of same.
Got the joke but was thinking of composite names such as Ornithomimosauria and Halszkaraptorinae.topsquark said:You mean like, "aptasaurus?"
-Dan
That's what I used to call apatosaurus when I was a kid. :)Klystron said:Got the joke but was thinking of composite names such as Ornithomimosauria and Halszkaraptorinae.
I have no problem with reclassifications of previously described fossils though the progression of names for brontosaurus reminds one of the Pluto planet classification controversy from astronomy.
Taxonomy can be kind of crazy with names.Klystron said:Currently updating my knowledge of dinosaur science and vertebrae paleontology by reading new books. Spelling and remembering names for species and groups, let alone pronouncing them, remains problematic. Not only does taxonomy include difficult to spell proper names as mentioned in earlier posts but applies pseudo-classical Latin conventions that vary enormously from the Latin I learned as a child.
Fungal taxonomy, not fun.BillTre said:Taxonomy can be kind of crazy with names.
Besides changes in names and continued use by some people (in the literature!) of old names, I have also seem mis-spelled names propagating through different published papers.
topsquark said:That's what I used to call apatosaurus when I was a kid. :)
-Dan
pinball1970 said:Fungal taxonomy, not fun.
The most ridiculous name ever?fresh_42 said:
Oh, I don't know. Captain Kirk's favorite bird is the Khaan.pinball1970 said:The most ridiculous name ever?
And yes of course it's Welsh. Perhaps a couple of PhD students got the crazy idea that if they could isolate a novel species from (that place) then the binomial would be pretty damn long.
if not the longest.
I recently read about the machinations Gene Roddenberry went through to get Majel Barrett (later Mrs Roddenberry) into the original series as Nurse Chapel, after the original original pilot had her as "Number One".Ibix said:I thought Captain Kirk's favourite bird was the one with the green skin...