that phrase is to biology as "donde esta la biblioteca" is to spanish
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Donde esta la discoteca? If you had a βcoolβ teacher.
'i' before 'e' except after 'c'
Or when sounding like βAβ as in neighbor and weigh
And on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May
And you always be wrong, no matter what you say.
yes, Bryan, we all call that "desk"
I bought 2 boxen of doughnuts
*diesk
This is honestly one of my favorite ones, and legit runs through my head whenever I can't remember the spelling of a word
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Except in glacier, because English is fucked.
I always thought this one was pretty... WEIRD...
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I've only heard this phrase from Americans, so I think "all over the world" is a stretch
It's a meme in the netherlands as well.
It's a meme, but I've never seen it in a Dutch textbook. I don't even know what the Dutch version of the meme would be in meme form.
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Its taught in India as well, (and is also a meme here)
Can confirm in south india
Australian here, they taught us this meme in school.
Mitochondria is plural. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
What's the singular, then?
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I believe most nations have a version of βHead, Shoulders, Knees, and Toesβ that is taught in early education.
While not unhelpful, stop-drop-and-roll and quicksand don't come up as often as we thought back then
I was always worried about proper handling of nitroglycerin. Talking to my friends it seems that wasn't as common as quicksand or even thinking you'd need to tell gold apart from fool's gold (pyrite). Games like Crash Bandicoot, shows like Dexter's Lab, and a general interest in science may have meant I heard more about it as a kid.
To the tune of "Pop Goes The Weasel":
x equals negative b /
plus or minus the square root /
of b squared minus 4 ac /
all over 2a!
I cannot believe that stupid fucking song is still in my head, but good God damn it worked. It's there for all 0 times I'll need the quadratic equation in my daily life.
I can't even visualise what you are saying
I don't hear it either, though.
I can. But I can't hear it at all.
I know the equation but "hearing" something in your head sounds.. weird
I've been hearing the Donkey Kong song in my head for the last 6 hours. If you know how to make it stop, I'm all ears.
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It was to to the tune of Frère Jacques when I learned it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8re_Jacques
Negative b, negative b
Plus or minus square root, plus or minus square root
B squared minus 4 AC, b squared minus 4 AC
Over 2A, over 2A
Finding the name of the original song was a pain. I'd never seen it written as an adult and thought it said "do re mi" so every search result kept telling me it was from the sound of music.
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Question and all comments (apart from "donde esta la biblioteka") are not "all over the world", but American
Do you have any evidence your phrase is used all over the world? I never learnt it.
I learned it in German in Germany. Do we have evidence from the francophone world? Latam? China?
Checking in from NZ, sounds familiar to me
Workers of the world, unite!
"Don't use Wikipedia as a source."
Man, if I want to get a pretty good overview on almost anything, Wikipedia is the best and most accessible way. Luckily, the consensus seems to slowly change to a cautious "Don't use Wikipedia as your only source, especially on controversial topics."
y = mx + b
"Christopher Columbus discovered America" (hopefully they're not still teaching this)
Even worse: Columbus thought the earth was round but nobody believed him.
In 14 hundred and 92 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And also committed genocide
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Didn't that originate in a Sabrina The Teenage Witch episode? Or did I just imagine that?
I haven't heard about mitochondria in so many years (obviously. why would I?) and I can't explain why it feels so good reading this now.
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I don't remember hearing that specific phrase in school. I remember hearing a teacher tell us to take deep breaths to fire up the mitochondria but not that it was "the powerhouse of the cell." This was a meme that became common after my education was done. Because it became a popular meme it's possible more teachers said it specifically along with whatever other fun phrases they had.
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The book is on the table.
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