Just imagine

Conversation between Ethan and I this afternoon after school.

E: "Mom, I don't like imaginary numbers."

Me: "Oh, neither do I. I don't understand how they work. It's like, Hey- I don't know how to do this problem so let's make up a number and call it good and make the problem do what we want."

E: "Too bad it doesn't work for English as well when you don't know how to spell a word, just make up some letters and call it good."

To bad that's not how it really works in either case.

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Indeed.