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From: Urs Schreiber <urs.schreiber@googlemail.com>
To: Johannes Huebschmann <johannes.huebschmann@univ-lille.fr>
Cc: "categories@mta.ca list" <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Categories and functors, Funktor
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:11:15 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hoqLD-0002Gl-OV@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1hoWDC-0004bX-Ns@mlist.mta.ca>

> For fun: The German term for functor is
>
> "der Funktor".
>
> "Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.

If you allow compound nouns then

  "der Funktor" translates to the fool who operates the remote control.

"Der Funktor bedient das Funktor.":
The remote control fool operates the remote control gate

What a Teekesselchen!


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-19 11:32 Johannes Huebschmann
2019-07-19 18:45 ` Michael Barr, Prof.
2019-07-19 19:11 ` Urs Schreiber [this message]
2019-07-19 21:00 ` Albert Georg Passegger

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