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Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before.

From	Athel Cornish-Bowden <athel.cb@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before.
Date	2023-10-21 20:50 +0200
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On 2023-10-21 16:53:41 +0000, Volney said:

> On 10/21/2023 4:55 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>> Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 19.10.2023 um 12:04 schrieb J. J. Lodder:
>>>> Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 18.10.2023 um 10:53 schrieb J. J. Lodder:
>>>>>> Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote:
>>>>>> 
> 
>>>>>>> Any good Maoist knows that relativity is 'the epitome of bourgeois
>>>>>>> science', which is wrong, since it conflicts with proletarian science."
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Well, maybe I should try:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 'Good Maoist' is imho an oxymoron, since 'good' and 'Maoist' conflict
>>>>>>> with each other.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is just your understanding of 'good' that is wrong.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't think so, because Mao holds actually the (current)
>>>>> all-time-record for mass murder.
>>>> 
>>>> Your English needs more work,
> 
>>> Well, yes, but I'm trying to enhance my abilities all the time.
>> 
>> For your information, you are failing.
>> There really is more to English than your high school textbooks.
>> In particular, 'good' has many more meanings than 'morally good'.
>> One of them is 'being a true follower in a doctrine',
>> so for example a good Maoist, but also a good Catholic, etc.
>> 
> That is correct. English can be very subtle at times with definitions, 
> which is why it can be so difficult for non-English speaking people to 
> learn. In this case "good Maoist" does mean someone faithful to and 
> believing the teachings of Mao, and definitely does not have the 
> meaning of "not bad" or "not evil" which would make the phrase 
> contradictory.

Getting away from the (real) faults of English, and back to the point 
"Mao holds actually the (current)
all-time-record for mass murder," it is certainly true that many people 
during Mao's time, but most of y deaths cannot be called murder. Mostly 
they were a consequence of incompetent management of the Great Leap 
Forward. To take a more recent example (on a much smaller scale), Anne 
Sacoolas didn't murder Harry Dunn: he died as a result of her 
incompetence and inattention.


-- 
athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots

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  Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-15 22:09 +0200
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      Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-10-17 11:31 +0200
        Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2023-10-18 07:53 +0200
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                Re: Pythagoras, the first major plagiarist of babylonian math, 1000 years before. Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-10-21 12:53 -0400
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