| Hiku said: You know the American education system is doing a terrible job when people consider math a foreign language. |
Considering most math uses the Greek Alphabet which Americans are not familiar with, I don't see how this is can be considered "a terrible job." Only people who take a Trigonometry class or go to a fraternity would probably recognize what most of these letters are in the U.S. And when you see a string of many of them in an unusual pattern, it definitely could look pretty foreign. There is a syntaxical language overlaying mathematical concepts. Some even go as far as to call mathematics a bunch of mix-matched languages that describe logic and patterns. I think the stupid thing about this is that writing another language qualifies you for suspicion of terrorism, not that the woman identified the math as a different language.
