Mental Floss T-Shirts, Part II: Hyperbole, Kinetic, Binary
Hyperbole is obvious and intentional exaggeration. Haha, “best thing ever”!
Kinetic means pertaining to or caused by motion. Relatedly, “motion scientists” (and highly educated gym teachers) are called kinesiologists.
Binary means of or relating to the number two. Sometimes people say binary to refer to a system of “ones and zeros” in computer programming.
Mathematically, binary means “of or pertaining to a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation.”
Colloquially, people use binary to refer to a system with only two options. Activists fighting for the rights of transgendered (or non-gender-conforming) people sometimes speak out against a “gender binary.” By this, they mean that it ought to be okay to exist at various places in the middle of a spectrum of male and female, or to exist entirely outside of that system of gender encoding.
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