Quote: (03-14-2018 10:22 AM)Fisto Wrote:
Quote: (03-14-2018 03:28 AM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (03-14-2018 03:03 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
As for jerking off a genius cripple, well it's a no-brainer. You pump out a few kids, teach them basic maths and literacy and then place them in front of a computer each with a hundred bucks in bitcoin and tell them that only the top performing daytrader will get to eat at sundown.
If there are multiple "maths" then shouldn't you write "literacies" as well?
Ever heard of “mathmatics”?
It's clear that you are disagreeing with me here just to disagree with me, but since English is your second language, I'll throw you a bone and provide an explanation of basic English syntax and grammar.
First off, "mathmatics" is not a word in the English language. The correct spelling is "mathematics."
Second, can you think of any sentence where the word "mathematic" is used? If you can, you're using English incorrectly, because "mathematic," although occasionally used in the place of "mathematical" is also not a word and when it is used (incorrectly), it is used as an adjective, not a noun.
Mathematics is the noun form. Now, for your typical second language learner of English, the common assumption is that because there is an "s" on the end of the word, it must be plural.
However, if this were the case, the words
bus,
Swiss and
emboss would be plural words, but they are not.
In fact,
mathematics is neither singular nor plural, because
mathematics is an uncountable noun, like
snow and
chatter. You wouldn't pluralize
snow or
chatter, because they are uncountable nouns.
The same goes for
mathematics. It's actually different than the words
science and
philosophy as both science and philosophy can be divided into concrete systems that can be used independent of the others (you can discuss physics without having any knowledge of biology, because the two can operate complete independent of each other).
You can't do calculus, however, without being dependent on many elements of the general body of mathematics, since you'll still need to perform arithmetic functions.
And now you're up to speed on how the English language really works.