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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Physicians: "It's all vector addition and differatials?"
Mathematicians: "Always has been."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

There's this Finnish joke that doesn't translate well, about a physicist who got pulled over by police. "Uh, I guess I accelerated a bit."

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(A particle accelerator is a machine that accelerates little bits. Do you get it now?)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was "break wind". 😆💨

[–] [email protected] 27 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

So normal people don't have an education? It is brake, how do you people keep making this mistake?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Likely something to do with English being a secondary language to the vast majority of the world...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Afaik native speakers make such mistakes more often, since they learned far more of the language by hearing than by reading

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

It's an Alfa, "Break" might be the correct terminology /s

Joke of course, I love Alfa's!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Well, I think you answered your own question 😅