Re: CHAT: Parallelism

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>dunn patrick w wrote:
>
>> Is only one.  Hence, we remember the order of planets not by remembering
>
>> nine units in a row (incidently, this applies particularly to short term
>
>> memory rather than long term memory), but as a single unit, a sentence:
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>> "My very educated mother just baked us nine pies."
>
>Strangely, I never heard that mnemonic until well after I'd committed
>their order to memory.  (Incidentally, that sentence only this year
>became accurate - Pluto had been closer than Neptune).
Of course, the last I heard, Pluto had been reclassified as a Big Hunk Of Rock
With Its Own Orbit rather than a planet. (or did I dream this?)

sam