An appropriate exemption / adjustment for people with dyscalculia is different from allowing generic humanities students to opt out from learning basic life skills surely.
There is nothing ironic about that, since it's used appropriately and not in a way that's "by accident" or otherwise malapropos.Ironically, the story that I submitted for Crime & Punishment, which I pulled after it sat in limbo for weeks, used/uses this construction in its second opening paragraph ... setting the scene in a law office with a male MC who's a lawyer:
It wasn’t as if he lacked work to do, even though he had already billed a hundred hours this month and it wasn’t even the fifteenth of said month yet.
Not completely facetious. Maybe a little. But it set the foundation that the POV character is a lawyer. That said, I can't even completely say myself if I'd have written it differently ("the month" instead of "said month") had saidMC been some other profession than a lawyer, consultant, MBA, or other profession where the use of "said" is common.
I don't know about that, but you can argue that coffee is. It's beans in hot water.
I’d argue that we’d be in a better place of more people had basic numeracy skills.
The only time the letters P-E-N-I-S ever appeared in a New York Times crossword; "The _____ mightier than the sword." (2 words"
The black ones are better if you eat them with the orange ones.
As an English major, I strongly disagree.
Writing is fun, and I can't draw.
Primary school, surely? I can't think of any maths that I was taught after age 12 that I've used in a real-life situation. Besides helping my niece with her homework.
More or less.
Not sure if it’s the case in the US, but the basics of probability and statistics are typically taught only in high school, and these days they are more or less essential if one doesn’t want to fall prey to rhetorical tricks with numbers that media and politicians love to pull.
Of course some may view it as convenient to have an ill-informed populace.
No, no, no -- Red Delicious!
Apparently, some people eat cereal straight out of the box like people eat potato chips.
Compound interest is basic multiplication once you understand the principle. But I've never had any use for calculus, trigonometry, or algebra.
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100% true.
You judge the act -- maybe. Murder is wrong.
Ultimately, you can't offend anyone. Offense can only be taken, not given. If I refuse to be offended, then you cannot offend me no matter how hard you try.
