[Ads-l] banana (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dave Hause]

EEs remember wires, MDs struggle to remember cranial nerves.  Lots of 
mnemonics for the names but you have to memorize functions, too.  Suggestive 
or obscene helps but I went to St. Louis U, a Jesuit-founded school so we 
(MD, 1980) sought also for sacrilegious;  S - sensory, M - motor, B - both 
sensory & motor:  Sally sucked many monks but Magdalene blew seven brothers 
before morning mass.
Dave Hause

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From: MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:18 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: banana (UNCLASSIFIED)

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>
> In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail in 
> the
> coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
>
>  For people with degrees anyhow.
>

Oh, I have a degree - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.  But 
the standard mnemonic for color codes on resistors was taught to us with a 
straight face ("Black boys rape our young girls but Violet gives 
willingly" -- black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, 
white)), so whether or not "oriental" was offensive was completely off the 
radar.

(Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or sexist, but 
are also much less memorable.)


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