Isn't that a wonderful picture? If Nlhome had not mentioned that she couldn't put a link to it, I would never have seen that BBC picture or article, and it's a keeper, since the Japanese seem to feel there's nothing wrong with it, it's almost a positive thing, different than a bibliophile (a person who collects or has a great love of books). We're all that, here, I think?
I saved the librocubicularist too, Bellamarie, thank you, nothing but Latin derivatives there, we can use that.
I like the word innumerate. I used to say I was a math illiterate but the correct word, I have now learned, is innumerate: a person lacking basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic. I blame mine on the way we were taught math back in the day.
I am still waiting for the chance to use the types of math problems those who taught us back in the dark ages felt were important. All those trains leaving the station at certain speeds, coming towards each other, all those ladders leaning against the house and all the calculations one had to do in response to each of these situations, and I have never in my life, not once, had to figure train speed or ladder angles since, although I admire Sherlock Holmes figuring the speed as he rode along in a train carriage, by the telephone poles he passed. That seems a lot smarter to me, not much to calculate.
