Timeline for Funny names of mathematical objects?
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| Apr 20, 2021 at 7:14 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Apr 8, 2021 at 20:05 | history | edited | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8, 2021 at 16:02 | comment | added | M.G. | @AlexandreEremenko: I removed the link and thanks for that bit of mathematical language trivia :) Yes, I believe you are correct that goper is pronounced as гопер/гоупър rather than жопа. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 15:33 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @M. G. The "g" in "goper" (slang) is probably pronounced in English like the first letter in "golf", while in the matematical term G-oper it is pronounced as "G" in "George" which is consistent with Russian pronounciation:-) | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 15:19 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @M.G. Thanks. You may remove it now if you find in inappropriate. When V. Drinfeld introced this term he did not know American slang; he was working in Kharkiv at that time, and had never traveled abroad before. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 9:51 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @M. G. Looking in a slang dictionary I found only "gopher", which is pronounced differently. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 6:38 | comment | added | M.G. | @AlexandreEremenko: Additionally, from my limited understanding as a non-native English speaker, goper means a Republican (GOPer), but also has a certain slang meaning according to urban dictionary. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 1:02 | history | edited | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8, 2021 at 0:51 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Federico Poloni: "oper" is a slang word for "cop". "G-oper" as it is pronounced in Russian is associated with "жопа", which means "ass", "arse". So if you want to call a cop "asshole", you can use this word and everyone would understand what you mean. | |
| Apr 7, 2021 at 21:08 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Could you elaborate on what makes them funny for a Russian speaker? | |
| Apr 6, 2021 at 18:36 | comment | added | erz | left / right ideals | |
| Apr 6, 2021 at 11:41 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |