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[Oct. 18th, 2011|03:24 pm]
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What's the most pointless mnemonic you've ever had to learn?
I think mine is HOMES, because seriously, what upper Midwestern kid can't remember the Great Lakes without a five-letter word? But then there's also PAY HERB Czechs, and that's pretty useless, because who needs to remember the Warsaw Pact countries these days? I also never liked that East Germany just got E and they couldn't come up with anything for C and so went with Czechs. |
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Roy G. Biv is pretty pointless, for the same reason as HOMES.
I remember it being useful waaaay back when I learned it; I didn't know the order of the colors yet.
I found ROY G BIV useful. It's how I remembered the colors of the rainbow. What's HOMES?
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Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior
The thing I always forget is the order of Ontario and Erie. I have to build the Erie Canal in my head and figure it out from there.
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That is a wonderful sentence.
But yes, that was Tim's complaint also: remembering the names of the Great Lakes is not hard, and remembering them in some random order is not useful.
Right. And it's not quite as obvious to us from New York (and may be genuinely useful to someone from the south), but I'd want to know them in order, not have to keep reminding myself that no, Huron isn't at either end.
Oh. The Great Lakes. It would be more useful if it were in order.
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