@Ndungi, pleasant surprise! 12 years was i think when i must have been leaving that "institution". @solomon, you still looking for a way of making 11 x 2 + 32 - 21 + 5 x 3 + 5 x 1 equal to anything i want? Haaa! On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:
when you have to rearrange the equation to justify an arguement, you are
doing what we reffered to as MalReasoning. Deiberately refusing to reason..
Areba .. LOL! ,
Not to derail the discussion, but the term `MalReasoning` has taken me back 12 years and given me a good laugh in the process .. You see in a certain institution (where I suspect you were) , it was construed that since `malfunction` and `malnutrition` employ the same mechanism to negate their respective nouns, it would be very much in order to describe a fellow/gentleman who purposefully went round the rules of reason to win an argument as one `malreasoning`. the prefix was appropriate in two ways : it not only expressed the force with which the gentleman (most probably in authority, a cop) went against reason, but his acute deficiency of the substance as well. interesting times those were. need i mention that concocting a word like `malreason` was itself an exercise of the vice.. :-)
Back to BODMAS, am now lost for what i thought i knew the answer was. suddenly Gitau's argument seems right!
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