My son is really into math and died laughing when I sent him this meme
Minus one ➖
Submitted 7 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to science_memes@mander.xyz
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exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Gloomy@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Minus one
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Doctor means “to teach.” MDs need to stop using it (unless they work for a teaching hospital) and we wouldn’t have this problem.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The problem mostly arises in English. I speak several other languages and all of them have a separate word for doctor(phD) and doctor(healer or whatever). I never understood why it is that way in english.
Ghostie21@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Prior to the start of modern medicine there was massive distrust with anyone who tried to treat people, as many of these were scams. When MDs started to actually understand health they started cooping the term doctor to instill trust since people knew that meant the person had been professionally educated, then they also managed to get laws passed so while anyone could call themselves a healer, only trained professionals could call themselves MDs. Eventually, doctor came to mean MD in English instead of PhD.
oce@jlai.lu 7 months ago
There’s the same confusion on French and Spanish, that’s a lot of people covered already.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Physician
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
🦆<(I’m not a medical doctor.)
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Minus two
But…what… I’m the mathematician and I’m pretty sure your friend dying is just minus one.
Minus…two…
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This just means minus one person due to death, right?
Missmuffet@lemmy.world 7 months ago
07
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Haha! Fucking wrecked.
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
He’s a doctor in twitch chat
variants@possumpat.io 7 months ago
A live human body and a dead human body have the same number of particles. Structurally there’s no difference.