https://xkcd.com/2904

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‘At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters’ is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas ‘you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet’ falls out of the Lagrangian.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I’m terrible with human languages too. I barely made it through French.

      And computer languages. I’ve tried learning C and Python and Java multiple times and it just baffles me.

      So yeah, apparently the language center of my brain is entirely devoted to English.

      I really love science and I do try my best to understand it, but I realize I can only ever do so at a superficial level.