What English expression do you hate the most?

[Dogtrousers]

The person who first replied "I'm GOOD" when someone asked how they were has a lot to answer for then.

"I'm good" is also used to mean "No, thank you". As in "Would you like another piece of cake?" "I'm good" (which means "No, thank you, I have had sufficient cake".)

I suppose if you answered "I'm bad" that would mean, "Yes, an extra large slice please"

 

[Dogtrousers]

One is three dots in a triangle and the other is something like this =>

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Joking aside, I seem to remember you use the "=>" symbol between each step, then use the "therefore" three dots just before the conclusion. Mind you it's over 40 years since I've written down a proof!

Be careful to get your three dots the right way up. Just because ... ∵

 

[matticus]

"I'm good" is also used to mean "No, thank you". As in "Would you like another piece of cake?" "I'm good" (which means "No, thank you, I have had sufficient cake".)

The correct phrase is "i have had an elegant sufficiency, thankyou"

I suppose if you answered "I'm bad" that would mean

... that you are Michael Jackson.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Another irritant is when someone replies “interesting” usually prefixed with an ‘mmmmm”

”mmmm interesting” what is that actually supposed to mean? it’s a cop out from actually expressing any sort of opinion.

 

[Profpointy]

Be careful to get your three dots the right way up. Just because ... ∵

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that; just like the del symbol for maxwell's equations

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that; just like the del symbol for maxwell's equations

aka Nabla, because it looks like an Irish harp.

 

[Profpointy]

Another irritant is when someone replies “interesting” usually prefixed with an ‘mmmmm”

”mmmm interesting” what is that actually supposed to mean? it’s a cop out from actually expressing any sort of opinion.

Doesn't "that's an interesting suggestion" translate to "are you on drugs?"

 

[Profpointy]

aka Nabla, because it looks like an Irish harp.

I never knew where the term nabla came from !

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm struggling to understand the difference between the two expressions.

Mathematical proofs are often long and complex beasts. You break them down into a series of smaller more easily digested logical steps, with each step having a conclusion / result. This is the therefore at the end of that step. The next step then takes the last therefore as true and proceeds to derive another conclusion on that basis. It follows is used to start the next step of arguments in the proof.

Like @Profpointy it has been around 40 years since I wrote my last mathematical proofs.

 

[Sea of vapours]

aka Nabla, because it looks like an Irish harp.

Ahem ... A Phoenecian harp, and expressed in Hellenistic Greek. Admittedly, Irish ones look the same, but that's not where the word Nabla comes from.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ahem ... A Phoenecian harp, and expressed in Hellenistic Greek. Admittedly, Irish ones look the same, but that's not where the word Nabla comes from.

I was misinformed ... 40 years ago. Sitting in a lecture desperately searching for nuggets of information that I could actually understand, I seized on that and remembered it. As to what that symbol is for, and what it actually does - well I was on shakier ground there.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Ahem ... A Phoenecian harp, and expressed in Hellenistic Greek. Admittedly, Irish ones look the same, but that's not where the word Nabla comes from.

According to wikipedia: “The name comes, by reason of the symbol's shape, from the Hellenistic Greek word νάβλα for a Phoenician harp…”

 

[DaveReading]

Another irritant is when someone replies “interesting” usually prefixed with an ‘mmmmm”

”mmmm interesting” what is that actually supposed to mean? it’s a cop out from actually expressing any sort of opinion.

That's almost as bad as "I hear what you're saying".

 

[Dogtrousers]

That's almost as bad as "I hear what you're saying".

Used to work for a guy who used that phrase a lot. The unspoken end to the sentence was "... and I'm not interested". Everyone knew what he meant.

 

[Gwylan]

Used to work for a guy who used that phrase a lot. The unspoken end to the sentence was "... and I'm not interested". Everyone knew what he meant.

Like the much clearer " your story, complaint, excuse, moan, witter has touched my heart. Now clear off"