A valuable learning tool: Mnemonics

[lisarea]

I knew I was taking a big risk putting this in the Edumacational Forum, but HOOOOEY BOY, you nerds.

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[Doctor X]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

The mnemonic I learned for the 12 cranial nerves goes: "On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Fine-Vested German Viewed a Hawk." (Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal)

Meh . . . Oh! Oh! Oh! To Touch and Feel a Girl's VaginA's [Or "Vagina, Ah Heavenly!"--Ed.] Hot!

L2, 3, 4 keeps the pee off floor.

Though, years ago, a Brother tried to come up with a mnemonic for the 12 Tribes of Israel--OMG! JEWS!

He was a bit pissed that the class came up with:

DR. J.J. BANGS LIZ

--J.D.

[The Lone Ranger]

Last semester, some of my students came up with: Oh! Oh! Oh! To Touch And Feel Virgin Girls' Vaginas -- Ah Heaven!

At the time, I assumed that they'd made it up: maybe they didn't, though? Interestingly, it was a couple of girls who suggested this as an alternative to the one I'd given them.


Cheers,

Michael

[ceptimus]

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0 : Black
1 : Brown
2 : Red
3 : Orange
4 : Yellow
5 : Green
6 : Blue
7 : Violet
8 : Grey
9 : White

[Nullifidian]

Here's one from my grammar and rhetoric class:

FANBOYS

That's a mnemonic for the seven major coordinating conjunctions in American English: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

[erimir]

I'd hardly call "nor" a major coordinating conjunction in terms of modern usage.

[LadyShea]

Neither/nor
either/or

[erimir]

Oh I was just making a burn against "nor" because the populace nowadays don't use it much.

A lot of times it ends up being "neither x or y", or people don't use the construction at all "not x or y".

[lisarea]

That is probably the top Nor Burn I've seen all week, erimir.

But if you guys aren't careful, I am going to compose a German joke about how TERRIBLE YOU ARE AT FOLLOWING THE RULES, and then I will shutter this whole thrad for noncompliance!


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[ceptimus]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

I don't understand the pi one, Mick, can you explain?

ETA: Doh, I got it now.

This one works the same way (count the letters in each word to get the next digit of pi).

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There is a problem with pi mnemonics - aside the fact that they are harder to remember than the number itself - what happens when you need to encode a zero?

Luckily, pi doesn't have any zeroes till you get to the thirty first decimal place - and by then the mnemonics have become impossibly contrived anyway.

[Doctor X]

Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger

At the time, I assumed that they'd made it up:

It is an ancient mnemonic. To quote the observation from Taxi when Louis DePalma whispers a password in DeNardo's ear:

DeNardo: That's disgusting!

Louis: But memorable.

--J.D.