• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        This is gonna get really confusing given that we already have inner and outer Mongolia.

        Let’s get weird with it. Left and right Mongolia. Up and down Mongolia, Euclidean and non-Euclidean Mongolia

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          1 day ago

          Not Inner Mongolia, not Outer Mongolia, but Forward Mongolia! Not Forward Mongolia but Upward Mongolia! And always riding! Riding towards freedom!

            • monotremata@lemmy.ca
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              Technically “ana” and “kata” were coined by Charles Howard Hinton back in 1888, in his book “A New Era of Thought.” Fun fact, his great-grandson is Gregory Hinton, the “godfather of AI.”

              But yeah, I did learn them from Sleator as a kid. Sleator was pretty great.

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                That whole generation of “Kids Learn Abstract Mathematics” books was great. Sideways Stories, A Wrinkle in Time, Flatland/Sphereland, hell even the Call of Cthulhu. Great reads on their own and chock full of high level concepts.

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                  Yeah. I might throw in Alice in Wonderland, White Light, and The Compleat Enchanter. (Not kids learning things in those last two, but the books definitely appealed to me when I was still pretty young.)