4.11.2005

Classes today

Well, math class this morning was quite interesting, we got into a half-hour argument about the meaning on "similarly situated" in the enunciation of prop 27 of book XI. Mose and I were on one side, saying that it was the correspondence of the angles and sides to one another in the different soldids, while Mark, lisa, and Paula were on the other side, saying that it was the orientation of the solids in relation to eachother, and that it wasn't proven in the prop, it was just a device to help you "imagine it in your mind." Dom was a bit confused, and thought he was agreeing with everyone. Eventually mose and I convinced everyone of the truth of our position, with the help of Mr Wodzinski, except Lisa, who laid her head down on her book in frustration. Such is Euclid.
There was a humorous moment in language too, when we were talking about addressing people and some noun taking on the gender of the person addressed, when Mose asked "What if I'm addressing or talking about an inanimate object?" Mr. Dragoo went, "Huh?" And Mose responded, "But I do it quite frequently!" At this point, Mr. Dragoo remembered it was Mose he was talking to. So he wasn't overly surprised when she wondered how to say "The kleenex box was taught" in Latin.

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