From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9962 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Urs Schreiber Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Categories and functors, Funktor Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:11:15 +0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Urs Schreiber Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="185390"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: "categories@mta.ca list" To: Johannes Huebschmann Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Jul 20 16:29:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.55]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hoqMF-000m6i-UQ for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:29:08 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:35750) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hoqLy-0004Jy-0v; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:28:50 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hoqLD-0002Gl-OV for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:28:03 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9962 Archived-At: > 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! [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]