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Posted by Matt Gerrans on January 23, 2002 at 4:00 AM

> well, sometimes, as a joke, when i was studying at the university, we use "pathology" as "paktorlogy".

> in a chinese dialect, pak tor (which sounds like "puck thor") means dating. so sometimes when a student ask "hey, where's X?", another might answer "he's studying paktorlogy" (he's dating) ;)

That's cute; we would say someone was out studing zymurgy, which meant, of course, out drinking beer.