@ColinTheMathmo to quote you: "in my experience the sort of thing you see to be describing ends up largely being symbol-pushing with neither context nor understanding"

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo No tusking! Play nice!

@JordiGH @ColinTheMathmo tusking?

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo @JordiGH I think he means like how animals with risks or antlers will fight with each other. By association with “Tusky” the mastodon app and also the fact that a mastodon has tusks

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo @JordiGH animals with tusks lol

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo @JordiGH I need to roofread before I send toot

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo @JordiGH hm

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo We toot, we are woolly, and sometimes we're mean and we tusk!

@stripey That was based on what I've seen many times, and intended to be an invitation to explain why in this case, for you, it isn't.

But a I've said elsewhere, I'm obviously not expressing myself in a way that you (and probably others) understand, so I'll stop.

@ColinTheMathmo hey, i don't think we have to stop discussing! i've really enjoyed thinking about the way math is taught. but maybe we should recalibrate the convo since it seems like we've misunderstood one anothers thoughts

see @JordiGH ? no tusking

@stripey @ColinTheMathmo

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@stripey @JordiGH I have a longer reply/discussion currently incubating. I don't know of any existing available medium for a "proper" discussion of this sort of thing.

Also, I've been reminded of how much of my ability to communicate clearly is conscious and learned. And fails when I'm tired *and* jet-lagged.

I'll return to this when I catch up a little with other things.

@ColinTheMathmo part of it, imo, has been that I'm not sure what your background is! it seems like we're pulling examples from very different fields in math, so that may be the issue?

@stripey It could be, and I'm trying to work out how to explain better. My quick response to try to help has turned into a monster, and I really don't have time to deal with it now.

But I want to come back to it to understand better your position, and to explain better what I was trying to say. Just not now.

So more later.

Cheers.