
So my Computer Science professor is British. VERY British. He has the closest thing to a cockney accent that I have ever heard in real life. He even has little British words that he likes to say, like "rubbish" instead of "garbage", "scripts" instead of "quizzes", and "bogus" instead of like, "BS" or something like that. It certainly makes for an entertaining lecture, when you can't understand half of what he is saying, and the other half sounds like something the girl from "My Fair Lady" would say. However, he is not as bad as my friend who has a first generation Indian TA with a lisp. I think that one takes the cake.
Thankfully, he does have a Powerpoint running over his shoulder the whole time, and he doesn't put silly, made-up words in there. So that is helpful. Today in lecture, he was going over the different methods of sorting a list of data. He eventually got to a type called "Quick Sort". The first bullet point on this slide informed us that "Quick Sort is quick". No only did I find the reduncancy rather funny but my nerdy friends and I quickly thought of this picture. This is "Longcat", an internet joke that has been around for several years. It often carries the caption "Longcat is long." People have made similar comments about other things, with the general formula, "XY is X". So I would like to thank my Computer Science professor, for unwittingly bringing on the lols for my friends and me.
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