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Murdered by Words
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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.
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They're learning what arabic numerals are for sure, unless they're a hopeless dumb fuck.
Coming from a midwestern American educational system, we were never taught the origin of numbers. They just teach what the numbers are.
I don't know if that's a good bet to make, I think Lemmy trends more towards the educated types who would learn it as a piece of general trivia.
Me from south germany also learning roman numerals did do a test on roman numerals :) It is or atleast was part of the teaching plan for 2nd-3rd grade
I’m okay with cat shit being gotcha’d.
They're called teachers, and being aware of basic knowledge isn't "a smug gotcha," it's not being proud of your profound and willful ignorance.