Dear All For fun: The German term for functor is "der Funktor". "Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate. Best regards Johannes [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
This reminds me of a story Kleisli told me once about an American coming to lecture at Fribourg and he gave it in French. But he kept talking about "la foncteur". At the end of the lecture, Heinrich gently told him that, in that case, it should be "la foncteur". Michael ________________________________ From: Johannes Huebschmann <johannes.huebschmann@univ-lille.fr> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 7:32:41 AM To: categories@mta.ca list <categories@mta.ca> Subject: categories: Categories and functors, Funktor Dear All For fun: The German term for functor is "der Funktor". "Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate. Best regards Johannes [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
For fun: The German term for functor is
"der Funktor".
"Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.
If you allow compound nouns then "der Funktor" translates to the fool who operates the remote control. "Der Funktor bedient das Funktor.": The remote control fool operates the remote control gate What a Teekesselchen! [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
A while ago there was a post in the n-Category Caf?? with a nice picture on this: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/01/vorsicht_funktor.html "Caution! Funktor! [meaning: remote control gate] Keep 2 m back." Definitely a picture to be shown in an introductory lecture on category theory (well, maybe not...) Best regards, Albert Am 19.07.2019 13:32, schrieb Johannes Huebschmann:
Dear All
For fun: The German term for functor is
"der Funktor".
"Das Funktor" translates to remote control gate.
Best regards
Johannes
[For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]
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Albert Georg Passegger -
Johannes Huebschmann -
Michael Barr, Prof. -
Urs Schreiber