On Friday 07 October 2005 01:31 pm, Dave Hansen wrote: > >Don't get me started on _that_ one. I found it particularly > >horrifying that Jimmy Carter pronounced it "nucular" -- he had > >studied nuclear engineering at the naval acadamy, and should at > >least be able pronounce the word.
Well, there's your problem. He learned from engineers. Engineers can't speak English. I was instructed in my "Engineering Statics" class that a three-dimensional structure connecting non-coplanar points in space was called a "tetrahedragon". I am not kidding. This actually happened. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
