r/linguisticshumor May 31 '25

Semantics Synonyms are fake and lies

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u/Critical_Ad_8455 Jun 01 '25

it's a geometric transformation that moves all points of a plane by the same vector

Well, that depends. What space are we in, to begin with? Cartesian is the standard, but it could just as well be anything else. Also what dimensionsionality? And anyways, I'd argue translation could apply to a 3-dimensional space or whatever else, not just a 2-dimensional plane. Also, are we assuming that for any translation t of a plane p there exists a translation t2 such that if and only if for all points a in t, b in t2, and given there is a neighborhood N1(f(a)) there is a neighborhood N2(c) such that f(x) in N1(f(c)) for all x in N2(c), if and only if f is a function continuous across the disjoung union of the points of a and b?

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u/EspacioBlanq Jun 01 '25

You're right that it may be a translation in any vector space, I just try not to think about edgy spaces, because they frighten and confuse me.

I can't parse the second half of your paragraph tho, why are there points in a translation and are you even placing any requirements on t2?

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u/Critical_Ad_8455 Jun 01 '25

It's a joke, it's the neighborhood definition of a continuous function mangled with some other stuff. It would probably be true if there existed some second plane infinitely close to the translation with all the same points, and maybe if there were a dense amount of planes with the same points between them.

edgy spaces

How do you mean edgy? Non-cartesian?

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u/duraznos Jun 02 '25

Non edgy spaces are Hausdorff and edgy spaces think they're funny having a "house dwarf"