When good mnemonics... go bad.
Nov. 2nd, 2004 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Mnemonics, when done properly, can help you remember things. Chanting "King Phillip Comes Over For Good Sex" can help you remember the order of classification: Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Saying "King Phillip Can Order Fine Gold and Silver" will cause problems if you try to add an A word in there, but should be essentially fine.
It took me several years to memorize the order of the planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and maybe Pluto) because somehow I memorized the sentence "My Very Energetic Mother Just Gave Us Nine Pizzas" where I should've said served. *sighs*
Yes. This was random.
It took me several years to memorize the order of the planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and maybe Pluto) because somehow I memorized the sentence "My Very Energetic Mother Just Gave Us Nine Pizzas" where I should've said served. *sighs*
Yes. This was random.
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Date: 2004-11-01 09:54 pm (UTC)*ahem*
Silly Gophers Fight Over Classy Popcorn Kettles.
It was easier for me to go from small (species) up rather than the other way around. besides, the mnemonic was silly. King Phillip? bwah?
and I just learned the planet's order. XD
The other ones Mnemonics I know are little ditties for math: The number in the front by the number in the front ~and~ the number underneath by the number underneath. for radicals (those Square Root numbers. EVIL they are.) That tune will never leave my brain.
have you listened to 'the Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas', by They Might be Giants? it's a genuinely good song on it's own, and it does tell how the sun works.