I’m intrigued by the topics legitimate mathematicians and scientists decide to research/calculate so I turned it into a game. Follow my lead (doesn’t have to be math, but it has to be reasonably legit - not a snark about religion or pseudo science).
The vampire theory is arguing from a false premise (or two). Vampire stories and legends typically don’t say “anyone bitten by a vampire becomes a vampire” or even “vampires kill every single person they feed on”.
Math says it still sounds SO WEIRD to me when I hear/see people saying “math” instead of “maths”. For some reason it’s one American useage I can’t get used to. Sounds like someone is talking with a speech impediment, or just haven’t finished their thought. Or all of mathematics is being reduced to one singular math. A tiny sliver of math. Just one math calorie. I can’t explain why it sounds so weird to me. Maybe you can do the maths and let me know.
And while I’m here, do you really need the OF in 'off of". I can’t get my head around it. Get off OF something? Why not just get off it? Where is the ‘of’ happening when you’re getting off a thing? Gah!
We’re very efficient here in the States. The nano-seconds we save by not pronouncing that “s” have made us the undisputed superpower of the world, and we always will be as long as we keep pronouncing it that way.
Same reason we dropped the “d” off of our pronunciation of “z”.
And the resources we saved by not using an extra u in colour, flavour, honour, humour, labour, neighbour, and rumour? That’s what we used to land on the moon.