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- Frozo, on 03/28/2009, -2/+10Fibonacci has never been so ugly.
- contrex, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5Spelling correction: It's the National Wildflower Centre. That's how we spell "centre" in British English, and since the name of the building is a proper name, please do us the courtesy of getting it right, like we do when we write about the World Trade Center.
- Tyr86, on 03/28/2009, -1/+6Tool - Lateralus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY
Swing on the spiral. - bimtott, on 03/28/2009, -1/+6Dugg 1.61803 times.
- FishHammer, on 03/28/2009, -2/+7***** YES WILD FLOWERS THIS IS EXACTLY WHATwait... I don't actually care about wildflowers.
- christoast, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5Fibonacci patterns exists a lot of places in nature, even in flowers.
learn to know stuff - Opiate, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4Keep going...
- HonoredMule, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3British English is supposed to be a better preserved standard of the language, which makes me wonder why it uses French spelling on words ending with an 'er' sound. I know English has a lot of inconsistencies, but this is a prominent and frequently-occurring one...and it looks ***** stupid. 'Re' spells out an R sound made through your nose, and actually making an R sound directly out of a T isn't even humanly possible...you ARE going to inject some kind of vowel sound in between no matter how you try to rush it together.
British English may be a more pure standard overall, but sometimes American spelling just applies a little more common sense and logic. - bluesatin, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3BT - 1.168
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGtTRVhMNEQ
BT - Fibonacci Sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsd4IubweU
Oh how I love BT! - inactive, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2That is surprising. It looks like someone's yard, not a "national center".
- christoast, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Would be better if they took all that ***** off the dome.
- thegr8db, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2You beat me to it...
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 - fabkebab, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2It seems like an awfully small garden around the dome - I thought britain had enough native species to take up a much bigger area?
- JustJoe4Life, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Only problem with British National wildflowers is they want all those foreign flowers sent back to their countries of origin, they're not prejudice again those foreign flowers, they just don't want them cross pollinating and corrupting the pure British strains.
- belfastbiker, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Jesus that was excellent.
- selfobsessed, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Finally get to show off my Fibonacci inspired tattoo on Digg!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/pnkboy2ther ... - HonoredMule, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Maybe you should check your work before it starts bouncing cheques.
- HonoredMule, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Listen closely, and you'll realize you're saying something between 'TuRY' and 'TeRY'. We just breeze over at maximum speed that intermediary sound our mouths make while switching positions...the 'e' and 'u' sounds cover all area between the T and R mouth positions.
More relevantly, is that what 'centre' is supposed to sound like? Because it's much harder to rush the consonants together (as in try) without a trailing vowel sound, and even the French don't do that. They pronounce it like they spell it (consistent with /their/ language, of course). - HonoredMule, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2I can't speak for the logic, but the rationale is that our core language is big enough already, and contextually-distinct reuse of words isn't really hurting us, especially when doing so increases the usability/versatility of existing knowledge and linguistic understanding (i.e. 'meter' always speaks of some form of measurement, even with the definitions you didn't list). Knowing one definition yields clues as to the others, which along with context can often suffice to work it out without even having to look it up. In a sane system, you don't even have to learn a new spelling, which could only be an arbitrary exception to typical phonetic spelling, since it's still pronounced the same way. When words ARE spelled totally differently, it's because there's no actual relationship at all, they just happen (as in completely unintentional happenstance) to sound the same--as with your and yore.
It's when you vary a homonym by spelling only that we get into trouble...such as with its/it's and there/their/they're. And since 'meter' has a third meaning (rhythm in poetry) what's your third spelling going to be? - HonoredMule, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1I think you might be a bit confused there. In any localization of English, 'got' and 'forgot' are past tense verb forms, whereas 'gotten' and 'forgotten' are part of the past perfect tense forms.
"I forgot my lunch yesterday, but I have not forgotten today."
Plenty of people may use the first form exclusively, but that's just grammatical sloppiness and not accepted English in any region's professional environments.
Also, French Canadian is quite possibly the worst example available of an 'archaic' or 'preserved' language. People in France tell visiting French Canadians to speak English because their attempts at true French are embarrassing and to some offensive. A semi-similar parallel might be ebonics, where a subculture has so coarsely diverged from accepted grammar and meaning as to require a new, distinct label.
I can say first hand that there are many in Canada who don't even quite seem capable of speaking in pure English or French--they use a completely garbled mix of words and grammatical ordering from both, which can really throw you for a loop if you only speak English. But I don't think anyone's prepared to recognize that as a legitimate dialect just yet. - aeschynanthus, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1Æ, as a letter, is a ligature (combined A and E). In archaic Latin, AE (digraph) or Æ was a diphthong /ai/, but later that changed into a long /ɛː/.
Æ is used as a single letter in modern Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pr ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography) - inactive, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1British English is different than American English.
You never forget the first time you hear an Englishman say he's going to go outside and suck a fag.
(Suck a fag = Smoke a cigarette)
.... but the Brits get a big kick out of us when we use the word "Fanny", and in fact, some women have it for their first name in the US and even France. In British English, it is synonymous to "pussy", as a part of the female anatomy and not a pusillanimous gentleman. - vertigelt, on 03/28/2009, -0/+1Oooh.... a diphthong...
- A5204, on 08/13/2009, -1/+2Reminds me of Æon Flux.
- Hellahulla, on 03/28/2009, -0/+1Æ isn't a diphthong ... well, not in any modern language (that I know of) anyway.
Historically it was though right?
I need coffee. - selfobsessed, on 03/30/2009, -0/+1Nah, I just wanted something that was very simple and clean but still got the general idea across to those that would get it.
Although most just think it's a refrigerator :\ - bennyboyo, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1British English is not supposed to be the better preserved, in fact US English -- like French Canadian -- is more archaic. It's down to the fact that settlers tend to hang on to aspects of their parent culture in order to maintain their identity. Compare the British English past participle 'got' ('get' -> 'got' -> 'got') with the US 'get' -> 'got' -> 'gotten' which follows the same (older) form as the British English 'forget' -> 'forgot' -> 'forgotten'. Same goes for a number of structures.
- inactive, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Fibonacci.
It's ugly though and looks like a virus.
It looks like the people inside are trying to run and escape from it out of its mouth...
Fibonacci was not only the one who gave us the Hindu-Arabic numeral system (before Fibonacci, we used Roman Numerals), but he gave us the fibonacci numbers - which are the backbone of the geometry of nature and the precursor to fractal mathematics.
Wildflowers make me sneeze.
Dugg just for Fibonacci and the fractal geometry connection. - inactive, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1Dude,
I hope that's done in pen and not a real tattoo.
And on your wrist no less...
There are so many better things you could have done incorporating the golden ratio, or a nautilus or even the Julia Set... or Paisley!
...although if you did the Mandelbrot set, it would look like a giant scabie (Sarcoptes scabiei). - LawScholar, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1I am not saying it is not important. I am saying it's boring to me.
- vertigelt, on 03/28/2009, -2/+1Try saying "try".
- gwhardyiv, on 03/28/2009, -2/+1Teletubbies
- carlingford, on 03/28/2009, -1/+0What do you think you are doing?complaining about using patois spelling then falling into the same patois calling it British
English,don't you realise they can't bring themselves to say ENGLISH ENGLISH? - christoast, on 03/28/2009, -4/+2Cry more
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/***** ... - carlingford, on 03/28/2009, -2/+0Where is the logic in using the same spelling for different nouns ie;meter gas,electricity etc,meter length
check,as in making sure and check(money) etc.? - LawScholar, on 06/25/2009, -4/+1Flowers and math, eh? Why not throw in some knitting and minivans, so that this ***** can REALLY get off the hook?
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