On Friday 07 October 2005 04:21 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-10-07, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, there's your problem. He learned from engineers. Engineers > > can't speak English. I was instructed in my "Engineering Statics" > > class that a three-dimensional structure connecting non-coplanar > > points in space was called a "tetrahedragon".
[typo: the word "four" is missing above in the definition] > Watch out for the fire-breathing kind. They're especially > dangerous since they have multiple faces, so there's no > "behind" from which to sneak up upon them from... of... to..... Well, yeah, although the correct pronunciation is apparently "te-tra-HEE-dra-GON". (Wishing I had figured out how to type IPA symbols so you could fully appreciate that ;-) ). It was very distracting, though, subvocalizing "tetrahedron" constantly during this guy's lectures. I suppose that might've contributed to my poor grade in this class (I left engineering altogether very shortly thereafter). -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
