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[mondeoman]

Does anybody else hate when they use exclamation marks in textbooks? It sounds so fucking corny. For example, from my Physics book:
"The term comes from the Greek word kinema, meaning movement. You know this word through it's English variation cinema-motion pictures!"
That was the second time on that page they used it.

[aminorthreat55]

Yeah thats annoying. Especially in history textbooks. It happened three hundred years ago, why would anyone be excited?

[sleepygrlgreen]

Does anybody else hate when they use exclamation marks in textbooks? It sounds so fucking corny. For example, from my Physics book:
"The term comes from the Greek word kinema, meaning movement. You know this word through it's English variation cinema-motion pictures!"
That was the second time on that page they used it.

Haha. I love it, but then again.... corny stuff does it for me. It's amusing to see how hard the authors of these textbooks try to get students into the reading.

[vikingstrike182]

It spices up my day when I read them.

[Withdrawnx3]

usually reading those sentences help me refocus lol
"You may not assume that just because two lines or segments look parallel that they are parallel---they must be marked parallel!"
^ sounds more threatening than corny...plus it's obvious so that just makes it more useless and dumb

[mondeoman]

Yeah thats annoying. Especially in history textbooks. It happened three hundred years ago, why would anyone be excited?
I love history but I don't need to see:
"George Washington crossed the Delaware!"

[puNk_tHeoRy]

We were reading this pamplet on disabled people in my morality class and ever other line ended with an exclamation. "They are people too!... don't treat them differently!"
I felt like I was being yelled at.

[scitsofreaky]

Morality class, wtf?

[puNk_tHeoRy]

Morality class, wtf?

i go to a catholic school and we're required to take theology classes...morality is just one of them. it's cool because now i'm taking Death & Resurection

[scitsofreaky]

Oh, catholic school. I probably should have thought of that.

[level4loser]

on the plus side, !!! is an amazing band.

[Alan Rupp]

I had to bump this because I thought these were hilarious:

"At rest, an average person hydrolyzes and produces about 40 kg of ATP per day - as much as some people weigh!"

"How does the second law [of thermodynamics] apply to organisms? Consider the human body, with its highly complex structures constructed of simpler molecules. This increase in complexity is in apparent disagreement with the second law. But this is not the case!"

[YearsGoneBy]

hahaha, im glad other people thought the same thing

[cht9989]

in AP Stat. there was this problem about the "stretchibility" of mozzerella cheese and something to this extent was in parentheses:

(Note: the researchers used real mozzerella cheese from Italy, not it's poor cousin widely found in the United States)

I was laughing so hard...while all the seniors who I do better than in the class were staring at me (i'm a sophomore).

[shut.the.door]

Is it wrong that I get offended by my accounting book? This book makes it sound like if you don't use its principles to run a business, you are a moron and your business will fail.

[Andy]

Id like to see a textbook that says:

"You might not know it yet, but unless you read this, you'll fail, lose all your money and die!"

[TheNumberOneFan]

in AP Stat. there was this problem about the "stretchibility" of mozzerella cheese and something to this extent was in parentheses:

(Note: the researchers used real mozzerella cheese from Italy, not it's poor cousin widely found in the United States)

I was laughing so hard...while all the seniors who I do better than in the class were staring at me (i'm a sophomore).


hahahahaha....

:)

[sweethypocrisy]

i go to a catholic school and we're required to take theology classes...morality is just one of them. it's cool because now i'm taking Death & Resurection
haha "erection"

[Alan Rupp]

oh how I love this thread:

If the bacterial DNA were actually arranged in a circle, it would be about 1.6 million nm (1.6 mm) in circumference. The bacterium itself is only about 1 μm (1,000 nm) in diameter and about 4 μm long. Thus the bacterial DNA, fully extended, would form a circle over 100 times larger than the cell!

The DNA in a typical human cell has a total length of 2 meters. Yet the nucleus is only 5 μm (0.000005 meters) in diameter. So, although the DNA in an interphase nucleus is “unwound,” it is still impressively packed!

The movements of chromosomes are slow, even in cellular terms. At about 1 μm per minute, it takes about 10-60 minutes for them to complete their journey to the poles. This speed is the equivalent to a person taking 9 million years to travel across the United States!

[poserkid]

Does anybody else hate when they use exclamation marks in textbooks? It sounds so fucking corny. For example, from my Physics book:
"The term comes from the Greek word kinema, meaning movement. You know this word through it's English variation cinema-motion pictures!"
That was the second time on that page they used it.
I don't think there's any other topic to start a thread on than this one. That was like...the funniest thing I've ever read! :love: The thing is though, whenever I see exclamation points in text books it's usually behind some sort of amazing fact that shocked the crap out of me. Seriously...lol.

[sunpoison]

Exclamation points are rare in my textbooks, but when they're used it's for really stupid things...like on ray diagrams, my physics textbook goes "However, light does not actually take the form of visible lines!" No shit, Sherlock.

[G.I.R.]

It makes me laugh when they put those in textbooks, it's funny that they think we have an interest in what they are saying.