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'At the stroke of midnight, your brother will be hurtling sideways at an altitude of 150 meters' is a regular physics prediction about your nonmagical trebuchet, whereas 'you are cursed to build a brother-launching trebuchet' falls out of the Lagrangian.

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[โ€“] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is a real good argument to be made that math is a language.

So you didn't fail math you are just illiterate. Not really sure if that is better though...

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I'm terrible with human languages too. I barely made it through French.

And computer languages. I've tried learning C and Python and Java multiple times and it just baffles me.

So yeah, apparently the language center of my brain is entirely devoted to English.

I really love science and I do try my best to understand it, but I realize I can only ever do so at a superficial level.