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[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 47 points 2 days ago

"As verbs the difference between sheared and shorn is that sheared is past tense of shear while shorn is past tense of shear."

Thanks, internet, you're very useful.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Shiela sheared sheep by the sheep shorn.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

A sheer waste of time, you say?

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

At least its not read and read

[-] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There once was a comment I read
it made me get up out of bed
In the toilet I peed
Til my bits start' to bleed
And from that day I no longer read

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

Potato potato.

[-] catsdoingcatstuff@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

Hey, it's the only thing I remember from linear algebra! That's the longest living sheep ever.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.

Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it

Edit: oh the screencap is older than a decade lol

[-] LostAndSmelly@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

I just checked and every single textbook I own that contains a reference to this transformation uses an image of a sheep. Sadly all of my textbooks are in English. If I had any relevant texts in German or Spanish I doubt that they would makes this connection.

On an less relevant note one of the books introduces the idea of change of basis with a joke about labeling axes and has several different types of ax with corresponding labels attached and I find that to be a much worse joke.

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I guess because it’s absurd you’ll remember it easier.

Kind of how people can recall a deck of cards by placing a person doing an action to an object (PAO) in familiar places. It’s the absurdity that makes you remember.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago
[-] embed_me@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

The reason it's easier to remember for humans is a double edged sword. If you accidentally type in text fields which don't mask input, it's easier to memorize for someone paying attention.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since you're multilingual and I assume English isn't your first language.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sheep: πŸ‘

Sheared Sheep: πŸ‘

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

How did you italisize an emoji?

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 2 days ago

Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.

…I don't know why that's surprising to me, since they're just Unicode, but it is.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago

πŸ‘ŒπŸ»

[-] ahto@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago

That's a fine transformation.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago
[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago
[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

just for you!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 days ago

He done shown me shorned sheared sheep!

this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
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