Thursday, July 20, 2006
This one goes out to James Kath:
Today during Spanish class we learned about how to express conjecture and supposition, like “I wonder… I suppose… what could be…” To demonstrate, our teacher brought in a sealed cardboard box and had us guess what was inside, using the future and conditional tenses and all that. So everybody was like, “Cuantos pesará?” [how much does it weigh?] “Será muerte?” [Is it dead?] Then in a flash of inspiration I raised my hand and asked, “Será el gato de Schroedinger?” And then I spent five minutes trying to explain Schroedinger’s cat and relativity, in Spanish, to a room full of totally unimpressed premeds and my Spanish teacher. It’s my feeling that these concepts should be more widely known.
Today during Spanish class we learned about how to express conjecture and supposition, like “I wonder… I suppose… what could be…” To demonstrate, our teacher brought in a sealed cardboard box and had us guess what was inside, using the future and conditional tenses and all that. So everybody was like, “Cuantos pesará?” [how much does it weigh?] “Será muerte?” [Is it dead?] Then in a flash of inspiration I raised my hand and asked, “Será el gato de Schroedinger?” And then I spent five minutes trying to explain Schroedinger’s cat and relativity, in Spanish, to a room full of totally unimpressed premeds and my Spanish teacher. It’s my feeling that these concepts should be more widely known.
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