How many ways can the original Latin “Carpe Diem” be mistranslated?
Seas the Day (take your boat out)
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Reimbursement for daily car use.
Seize the carp.
Mary had a little lamb,
a little beef, a little ham.
Then she had some salad and peas,
some mashed potatoes sprinkled with cheese.
She drank some milk and lemonade,
then ate some bread and marmalade.
Mary had some pies and cake
And now Mary has a stomach-ache
Somebody has claimed that “Mary had a little lamb” is a Christian allegory.
Mary (Blessed Virgin Mother) had the Lamb of God. Jesus, like Mary, was born sinless, thus “fleece as white as snow.” And everywhere that Mary went, etc. “It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule,” The “school” is the part of the Temple where the scholars and teachers discussed religion, where little kids weren’t allowed but Jesus was there anyway. “It made the children laugh and play.” The “children” are the scholars, children in their wisdom by comparison with the infinite wisdom of God. And so on. I suppose anything can be a Christian allegory if you work on it hard enough.
The Indivisible Man one bothers me… “What a Zero!” — if he were zero, he could be divided: zero divided by 1 is 0; 0 / 2 =0; 0/3=0; etc. He’s thinking if zero were the divisor, but that wouldn’t make for indivisible, that’s just dividing by zero, which is undefined. The closest to indivisible would be a prime number, but even those are divisible by 1 (and themselves).
I think, colloquially, a number that when divided simply returns the original number could reasonably be described as indivisible.
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Reimbursement for daily car use.
Seize the carp.
Mary had a little lamb,
a little beef, a little ham.
Then she had some salad and peas,
some mashed potatoes sprinkled with cheese.
She drank some milk and lemonade,
then ate some bread and marmalade.
Mary had some pies and cake
And now Mary has a stomach-ache
Somebody has claimed that “Mary had a little lamb” is a Christian allegory.
Mary (Blessed Virgin Mother) had the Lamb of God. Jesus, like Mary, was born sinless, thus “fleece as white as snow.” And everywhere that Mary went, etc. “It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule,” The “school” is the part of the Temple where the scholars and teachers discussed religion, where little kids weren’t allowed but Jesus was there anyway. “It made the children laugh and play.” The “children” are the scholars, children in their wisdom by comparison with the infinite wisdom of God. And so on. I suppose anything can be a Christian allegory if you work on it hard enough.
The Indivisible Man one bothers me… “What a Zero!” — if he were zero, he could be divided: zero divided by 1 is 0; 0 / 2 =0; 0/3=0; etc. He’s thinking if zero were the divisor, but that wouldn’t make for indivisible, that’s just dividing by zero, which is undefined. The closest to indivisible would be a prime number, but even those are divisible by 1 (and themselves).
I think, colloquially, a number that when divided simply returns the original number could reasonably be described as indivisible.