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I recently traveled to a parallel universe where the people wrote in a symbol-heavy language seemingly derived from English. While there, I attended various sorts of collegiate lectures to get a feel for the language; during a particular lecture, I saw this inscription written upon the board:



$$bbox[13px,border:1px solid black]{(veesqcup):quad2text{think}enspacewedgeenspacesquare=blacksquareenspacewedgeenspacetext{GABA}+text{crime}}$$



What does it say? What was the lecture about?






rebus english







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    I recently traveled to a parallel universe where the people wrote in a symbol-heavy language seemingly derived from English. While there, I attended various sorts of collegiate lectures to get a feel for the language; during a particular lecture, I saw this inscription written upon the board:



    $$bbox[13px,border:1px solid black]{(veesqcup):quad2text{think}enspacewedgeenspacesquare=blacksquareenspacewedgeenspacetext{GABA}+text{crime}}$$



    What does it say? What was the lecture about?






    rebus english







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      I recently traveled to a parallel universe where the people wrote in a symbol-heavy language seemingly derived from English. While there, I attended various sorts of collegiate lectures to get a feel for the language; during a particular lecture, I saw this inscription written upon the board:



      $$bbox[13px,border:1px solid black]{(veesqcup):quad2text{think}enspacewedgeenspacesquare=blacksquareenspacewedgeenspacetext{GABA}+text{crime}}$$



      What does it say? What was the lecture about?






      rebus english







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      I recently traveled to a parallel universe where the people wrote in a symbol-heavy language seemingly derived from English. While there, I attended various sorts of collegiate lectures to get a feel for the language; during a particular lecture, I saw this inscription written upon the board:



      $$bbox[13px,border:1px solid black]{(veesqcup):quad2text{think}enspacewedgeenspacesquare=blacksquareenspacewedgeenspacetext{GABA}+text{crime}}$$



      What does it say? What was the lecture about?






      rebus english




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          I'm pretty sure the lecture (or at least that part of it) was about




          George Orwell's novel 1984.




          The inscription




          refers to three key notions of the Party's thought-control in that book:
          $mathrm{2think}$: doublethink
          $square=blacksquare$: blackwhite
          $mathrm{GABA}+mathrm{crime}$: crimestop

          (GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in our nervous systems).

          These are joined together with $wedge$ which I assume simply signifies "and" as it does in our universe's mathematical logic.




          The mysterious prefix $veesqcup$




          is a terrible pun: $vee$ signifies OR and $sqcup$ is a picture of a WELL.







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            That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
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          I'm pretty sure the lecture (or at least that part of it) was about




          George Orwell's novel 1984.




          The inscription




          refers to three key notions of the Party's thought-control in that book:
          $mathrm{2think}$: doublethink
          $square=blacksquare$: blackwhite
          $mathrm{GABA}+mathrm{crime}$: crimestop

          (GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in our nervous systems).

          These are joined together with $wedge$ which I assume simply signifies "and" as it does in our universe's mathematical logic.




          The mysterious prefix $veesqcup$




          is a terrible pun: $vee$ signifies OR and $sqcup$ is a picture of a WELL.







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            That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
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          $begingroup$

          I'm pretty sure the lecture (or at least that part of it) was about




          George Orwell's novel 1984.




          The inscription




          refers to three key notions of the Party's thought-control in that book:
          $mathrm{2think}$: doublethink
          $square=blacksquare$: blackwhite
          $mathrm{GABA}+mathrm{crime}$: crimestop

          (GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in our nervous systems).

          These are joined together with $wedge$ which I assume simply signifies "and" as it does in our universe's mathematical logic.




          The mysterious prefix $veesqcup$




          is a terrible pun: $vee$ signifies OR and $sqcup$ is a picture of a WELL.







          share|improve this answer









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            $begingroup$
            That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
            $endgroup$
            – Brandon_J
            7 hours ago














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          $begingroup$

          I'm pretty sure the lecture (or at least that part of it) was about




          George Orwell's novel 1984.




          The inscription




          refers to three key notions of the Party's thought-control in that book:
          $mathrm{2think}$: doublethink
          $square=blacksquare$: blackwhite
          $mathrm{GABA}+mathrm{crime}$: crimestop

          (GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in our nervous systems).

          These are joined together with $wedge$ which I assume simply signifies "and" as it does in our universe's mathematical logic.




          The mysterious prefix $veesqcup$




          is a terrible pun: $vee$ signifies OR and $sqcup$ is a picture of a WELL.







          share|improve this answer









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          I'm pretty sure the lecture (or at least that part of it) was about




          George Orwell's novel 1984.




          The inscription




          refers to three key notions of the Party's thought-control in that book:
          $mathrm{2think}$: doublethink
          $square=blacksquare$: blackwhite
          $mathrm{GABA}+mathrm{crime}$: crimestop

          (GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in our nervous systems).

          These are joined together with $wedge$ which I assume simply signifies "and" as it does in our universe's mathematical logic.




          The mysterious prefix $veesqcup$




          is a terrible pun: $vee$ signifies OR and $sqcup$ is a picture of a WELL.








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            That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
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            That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
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          $begingroup$
          That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
          $endgroup$
          – Brandon_J
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          That's actually a stupendous pun, IMO. Upvote to OP :)
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