• KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    literally completely accurate

    I’m consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔

    • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      When I was a little child I was sad German isn’t the common language (“how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!”). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn’t German, I wouldn’t want that to happen to my language.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    2 months ago

    You’re telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?

  • Geobloke@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It’s even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he’s from and Muhammad is a common first name. It’s like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.

      If it wasn’t for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.

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          2 months ago

          True but then again that’s the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an “inventor”.

          Great businessmen always steal, they don’t have the ethics to do actual work