The meaning of Nambda
White Robert Nathan
> Greetings! I have finally found an excuse to post here. :)
> Could someone tell me what the meaning of the NAMBDA is?
> A friend of mine recently gave me a little desk flag with the
> nambda letter on it. I was wondering also what all of those
> colors signify.
Could you possible mean the Lambda sign? If so, it used as a symbol of
the gay community, just as the rainbow flag is (and the pink triangle).
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Nathan White
if...@jove.acs.unt.edu
Kristin Bergen
Steve <IK2...@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> wrote:
>Greetings! I have finally found an excuse to post here. :)
>Could someone tell me what the meaning of the NAMBDA is?
>A friend of mine recently gave me a little desk flag with the
>nambda letter on it. I was wondering also what all of those
>colors signify.
I'm sorry to tell you that there is no such letter, in Greek or in any
other language, as "Nambda." The Greek alphabet contains a "Lambda" and a
"Nu," but no "Nambda." You seem to have conflated "Lambda," equivalent to
the Roman letter "L," and "NAMBLA," an acronym for "North American Man-Boy
Love Association," a group organized around issues of pedophilia.
All those colors signify Bennetton, naturally.
gsm...@uoft02.utoledo.edu
> In article <94027.162...@maine.maine.edu>,
> Steve <IK2...@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> wrote:
>>Greetings! I have finally found an excuse to post here. :)
>>Could someone tell me what the meaning of the NAMBDA is?
> I'm sorry to tell you that there is no such letter, in Greek or in any
> other language, as "Nambda." The Greek alphabet contains a "Lambda" and a
> "Nu," but no "Nambda." You seem to have conflated "Lambda," equivalent to
> the Roman letter "L," and "NAMBLA," an acronym for "North American Man-Boy
> Love Association," a group organized around issues of pedophilia.
It's even more confusing than this, since he also might be thinking of
"nabla", a sort of disorientated delta.
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Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/University of Toledo
gsm...@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Tim Pierce
<gsm...@uoft02.utoledo.edu> wrote:
>It's even more confusing than this, since he also might be thinking of
>"nabla", a sort of disorientated delta.
Disorientated? Is that like being a commentator?
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Julian C. Lander
|> In article <2imjv7$6...@amhux3.amherst.edu>, twpi...@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
|> > In article <1994Jan28...@uoft02.utoledo.edu>,
|> > <gsm...@uoft02.utoledo.edu> wrote:
|>
|> >>It's even more confusing than this, since he also might be thinking of
|> >>"nabla", a sort of disorientated delta.
|>
|> > Disorientated? Is that like being a commentator?
|>
And it's obscure. Does anyone know why "nabla" is "nabla"? When
I first heard it in a differential geometry class years ago, I thought
that the teacher (who is from Iceland, and has a slight accent) was
referring to NAMBLA, which is a different thread entirely.
(There ought to be an analogy test for this: NAMBLA is to a lambda as
a Nambda is to a nabla, or some such thing.)
Where did it come from? Where did the name come from? And can you
make the sub- and superscripts go away?
Julian C. Lander
jcla...@mitre.org
gsm...@uoft02.utoledo.edu
> <gsm...@uoft02.utoledo.edu> wrote:
>>It's even more confusing than this, since he also might be thinking of
>>"nabla", a sort of disorientated delta.
> Disorientated? Is that like being a commentator?
Actually, it's like being upside-down.