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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 11:18:18 +0300
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On 2025-05-23 13:21:21 +0000, Ben Bacarisse said:

> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
> 
>> On 21.05.2025 03:17, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 20.05.2025 02:50, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>> I am one of the few Professors worldwide who do teach the correct view of
>>>>>> infinity (if actual infinity exists at all).
>>>>> Fortunately it's an optional course (at least it was) and your college
>>>> 
>>>> It is not a college but the Technische Hochschule Ausgsburg (THA).
>>> Why is college (or maybe technical college) not a good translation of
>>> that term?
>>> 
>> According to my dictionaries Colleges are parts of universities, but also
>> institutions not offering degrees attended by secretaries or
>> hairdressers. According to this translation the Technische Hochschule
>> Augsburg consists of several colleges. But the faculty of general studies
>> covers the full university of applied sciences. All students can attend my
>> courses.
> 
> Your dictionary is very odd.  In common English usage some colleges are
> parts of universities and some are not.  Some award degrees and some
> don't.  Some offer PhD studies and some don't.  I don't know what
> hairdressers have to so with it.

The point is that as a college can be significanlty less ambitious as
a superior school and in particular the Tehcnische Hochschule Augsburg
the word "college" is not a good translation of "hochschule".

-- 
Mikko