Posted on 01/16/2021 4:41:04 AM PST by NOBO2012
No, no actually you’re not, you’re missing an apostrophe.
That’s all I can muster today kids, I’m completely tapped out and I’m conserving my strength for the coming week which is bound to be trying. So get your ducks in a row,
and Caturday on. Please do your best to avoid chewing your nails, it serves no purpose
and odds are good you’re going to need them for self defense down the road.
In summary then: we’re okay, we just need to buy an apostrophe.
“An apostrophe is a comma to the top; that’s God’s comma” - Peter Mayle
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
the comma of Pythagoras might help?
It may have come to Pythagoras from the Egyptians - I don’t recall the details at the moment, but ancient Egyptian math was very complex.
Well, I cheated and read the Wiki entry. Pythoagoras did not invent jis comma, but some smart people used his mathematical principles and applied it to tuning instruments in the 16th century or so, and properly credited him.
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smart people used his mathematical principles and applied it to tuning instruments in the 16th century
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So did the Egyptians - the 16th century people just rediscovered it. That was the way with a lot of things which were once well known but later lost and rediscovered.
Lenses being one example: cutting crystal and glass to make eye glasses (nez pierce styles) was used in the Egyptian Old Kingdom as were lenses to make telescopes, and on up through the Roman period, before being lost in the Dark Ages and with the burning of the Library at Alexandria.
Where are these lenses? They are usually found in museum display cases labeled: jewelry - since it would go against consensus thinking to label them for what they actually are. See Robert Temple’s “The Crystal Sun”.
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