Mathematicians and language
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen.
Whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832)
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18 Feb 2007 at 10:24 am [Comment permalink]
I once overheard someone say that philosophers do pretty much the same – they interpret a simple event/theory/etc as something only they can understand.