Geometry renamed
2:24pm, 21st October 2004
There is a lecturer here who seems to have a deep knowledge of Armenian, Russian, German, French, Farsi, Greek and Latin, but has occasional trouble with English. However, supergenii like him do not find this a problem - their immense linguistic powers can reconstruct the etymology of English words on the fly.
Today he insisted the correct name for a square was a Quadragon. I think I agree with him.
All of which suggests the sage advice to “Avoid taking sides” is expressed via geometry: “Let bigons be bigons”.
Oh yes baby! Bi-directional punnage is mine once more!
