Fish and Caves

António Pedro Marques · 23 Dec 2010, 17:35 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:35:17 +0000
Subject: (urth) Fish and Caves
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Lee Berman wrote (23-12-2010 17:18):
>
>> Antonio Pedro Marques: my beloved and I got an extractor hood for our kitchen that is,
>> plainly speaking, a black upright parallelepipede, nothing more, nothing less. However,
>> we don't seem to be able to eplxian that to anyone. When people who haven't yet seen it
>> ask how it is, she says it's... a black upright parallelepipede.
>
> Heh, Antonio I'm afraid I was among the confused people after reading your post. Two completely
> unfamiliar terms.  A bit of Googling informed me that a parallelepipede is what I'd call a rhombus
> cube or something. And an extractor hood is (as I did guess) what I'd call a stove exhaust fan.
> Perhaps there are cultural differences at work? 		 	   		

Then our new stove exhaust fan may be a black upright rhombus cube. Though I 
don't think so - a cube is a parallelepipede with all 3 dimensions equal 
(height, width, depth). Ours is taller than wider, and a little more wide 
than 'deep'.

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