“As verbs the difference between sheared and shorn is that sheared is past tense of shear while shorn is past tense of shear.”
Thanks, internet, you’re very useful.
A sheer waste of time, you say?
Shiela sheared sheep by the sheep shorn.
At least its not read and read
There once was a comment I read
it made me get up out of bed
In the toilet I peed
Til my bits start’ to bleed
And from that day I no longer readPotato potato.
Hey, it’s the only thing I remember from linear algebra! That’s the longest living sheep ever.
Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.
Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it
Edit: oh the screencap is older than a decade lol
Sheep: 🐑
Sheared Sheep: 🐑
How did you italisize an emoji?
Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.
…I don’t know why that’s surprising to me, since they’re just Unicode, but it is.
👌🏻
I just checked and every single textbook I own that contains a reference to this transformation uses an image of a sheep. Sadly all of my textbooks are in English. If I had any relevant texts in German or Spanish I doubt that they would makes this connection.
On an less relevant note one of the books introduces the idea of change of basis with a joke about labeling axes and has several different types of ax with corresponding labels attached and I find that to be a much worse joke.
In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since you’re multilingual and I assume English isn’t your first language.
I guess because it’s absurd you’ll remember it easier.
Kind of how people can recall a deck of cards by placing a person doing an action to an object (PAO) in familiar places. It’s the absurdity that makes you remember.
The reason it’s easier to remember for humans is a double edged sword. If you accidentally type in text fields which don’t mask input, it’s easier to memorize for someone paying attention.
That’s a fine transformation.
Needs more frying
just for you!