I Heart Math T-Shirt

1. streetattack
   September 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm

   I think we need History, Art, and Lit to be included for those left brained folk!

2. Alex
   September 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm

   Great ideas! Hopefully we’ll cover those soon!

3. angelblade
   September 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm

   Cool!!!

   Pd: a great idea will be “I heart Linux”

4. megaggie2002
   September 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm

   oh oh oh….you need a i heart ecology or i heart wildlife

5. Polx
   September 4th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

   resist!

   resiiisssstttt!!!!!

   …..it’s mathS.

   there’s a bloody S at the end.

   It’s mathematics not mathematic.

   If abbreviated it retains the S.

   sorry couldn’t stop myself.

6. Vinterdekk
   September 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

   You’re right. The tshirt is flawed.

7. Alex
   September 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

   Maths?

   Not according to Merriam-Webster: math (circa 1847) meaning mathematics …

   or the American Heritage Dictionary

   I think “maths” is a distinctly UK thing.

8. Polx
   September 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

   Alex.

   It has always been mathematics

   Do you study MATHEMATIC…?

   http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/math

   http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mathematics

   It would appear that your own dictionary supports my point.

   The word is mathematicS, which is oddly not pronounced in abbreviation with the S.

   I accept that this is the way it is pronounced in the USA, but that is immaterial as it’s wrong.

   Do you study PHYSIC?

9. Alex
   September 6th, 2008 at 12:49 am

   Methinks thou hath gotten it wrong, polx.

   Language changes, mathematics was shortened to maths (in the UK) and math (in the US). Math itself is a recognized and bona fide word in the dictionary, along with mathematics. It is spelled in the USA without the s at the end.

10. Polx
    September 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Ok Alex, how can you say that the word is spelled without an S in the US and with one in the UK and say I am wrong.

    You’ve tacitly admitted I am right by admitign it is spelled correctly in the UK.

    I continue to contest that it is spelled wrongly in the US.

    I am already 66% proven right.

    I say it’s maths in the UK, so do you.

    I say it should be maths in the US, you disagree.

    Dammit, I’ll get you lot to change yet.

    I am off to gather my canadian forces (both Anglo and Franco) for a long bitter campaign to get you lot to say ZED.

11. Amazing Amanda
    October 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    I want one of those for Christmas

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