I just had to share this photo quickly. It came as a result of a few colleagues and I attempting to define the word “shenanigans” to one of our Chinese teammates. It makes you step back and say, “You know you are an engineer when…”
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This is lovely!
Next: A set theoretic version of the oxford dictionary.
I have always been fascinated with the subtle relationships between the words we use every day. I think this relationship is dramatically underrepresented in the list form dictionaries and is completely lost in translation between languages. A native English speaker may know, for example, when to use the word glare and when to use stare but explaining the subtle difference to a non-native speaker can be difficult. One of my favorite methods for capturing this “lost information” is the “visual thesaurus” http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ This isn’t a Venn diagram but this graph method has its advantages too. Can we think of any other complex systems that can be represented by graphs like these? I for one would like to see my Linked In or Facebook Graph.
-Charles
Excellent! But the lack of reference to “evil shenanigans” is worrying.
it’s so funny, great work.
i redid it for the lulz.
http://kidconcept.com/node/44
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Apparently, hooligans do not engage in shenanigans. Maybe its too silly.