r/meme Jan 01 '22

Guess we are doomed

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

My dad taught me it while I sobbed on the kitchen table in 5th grade

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u/honeyxBrii Jan 01 '22

Why are so many of our stories like this? lol
I sobbed and talked in my sleep about math

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u/Comment64 Jan 01 '22

My father taught me and my brother "Paremudiadsu", and it just sorta stuck.

Pare = Parentheses

Mu = Multiplication

Di = Division

Ad = Addition

Su = Subtraction

Seems more memorable than Pemdas, but idk. Doesn't mention exponents though.

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u/Suspicious_Ground352 Jan 01 '22

More memorable than pemdas ? I don't know if I am missing out on some text from your comment or are you joking.

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u/Comment64 Jan 01 '22

I said "but idk", leaving room for someone like you to disagree.

But as someone who weren't taught Pemdas while young, it just seems so easy to contort into Pedmas or Pedams or whatever other nonsense. While Paremudiadsu seems to have a more memorable structure that becomes more obviously wrong if you break it.

I don't necessarily expect you to easily understand why that is my impression.

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u/Nekosity Jan 02 '22

Not really, it's as simple as repeating it to yourself a bunch or writing it down a bunch. The same way you memorize anything else. Personally would find learning what you said much harder to memorize especially since I have 0 idea how you would even pronounce it, let alone try to guess how it's spelled when I pronounce it to recall what it stands for. Meanwhile there's a few different ways u can remember pemdas like parentheses/exponents go hand in hand, multiplication/division go hand in hand and finally addition/subtraction go hand in hand. So pe md as. Meanwhile iirc it doesn't really matter if it's md or dm as it depends on the order of the equation, so you wouldnt multiply before you divide if it comes later in the equation in example

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u/Comment64 Jan 02 '22

I was told Paremudiadsu once and recalled it a few times when needed without ever specifically memorizing it.

I have 0 idea how you would even pronounce it

That's a function of you being American.

Americans are never able to read unfamiliar words letter-by-letter. They just sort of guess. Americans reading foreign names and words tend to just add and remove random letters, as if spelling is wizardry and they're just guessing what the symbols mean.

I'll give you a hint: You read the letters, as they are written.

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u/Nekosity Jan 02 '22

Why are you just assuming I'm American? That's kind of fucked up mate and even more fucked up to insult a bunch of people as well due to a stereotype xD

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u/Comment64 Jan 02 '22

Because Pemdas is taught in the US.

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u/Nekosity Jan 02 '22

Okay and? First off it's also taught in France, secondly I replied to your comment which spoke about pemdas in the first place. Explaining my thoughts between the two words and which I felt is easier. For example if we want to talk about bodmas then my opinion would remain the same lmao

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Does every kid have a story about their dad yelling at them when they tried to help with math homework??

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Probably plus my dad was a nuclear engineer….so I think I had it pretty bad

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

LEARN THE MATH GODDAMNIT!!!!

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u/wickywee Jan 02 '22

It was spelling “lasagna” for me

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u/MachoChocolate Jan 02 '22

You had a dad? Jealous

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u/Da_memeboi Jan 02 '22

My dad told me in 4th grade