From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7070 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Dualities arising via pairs of schizophrenic objects Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:07:49 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322403936 22757 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2011 14:25:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Leinster ,Sebastian Kerkhoff , categories@mta.ca To: Robert Dawson Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Nov 27 15:25:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RUfff-0003w0-99 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:25:31 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:52953) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RUfeh-0005fr-Vf; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RUfeg-00027J-D6 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:24:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7070 Archived-At: Schizophrenic seems to me a ridiculous name for a mathematical concept. e.d. On 25/11/11 11:38, Robert Dawson wrote: > On 24/11/2011 4:33 PM, Tom Leinster wrote: >> Dear Sebastian, >> >> There are some people, including me, who are troubled by the term >> "schizophrenic" and want to replace it. Mental health groups go to some >> effort to persuade journalists not to use the word in the casual way they >> sometimes do; schizophrenia is of course a serious and often frightening >> condition, and it doesn't help when people use language in a way that >> perpetuates an inaccurate stereotype. ... [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]