Mark Dominus on Nostr: Check out "theoretical gore" in this illustration. (Upper right.) "Gore" is actually ...

Check out "theoretical gore" in this illustration. (Upper right.) "Gore" is actually a rather old word for a triangular-shaped piece of land. (Also a for triangular-shaped piece of fabric in a garment, and more generally for anything spear-shaped.)

In highway design, the “theoretical gore” is the triangular part of the road between the main way and the exit way, the part with white strips that you're not supposed to drive on.

The “physical gore” is the sort of armpit place _off_ the road that you will crash into if you keep driving on the theoretical gore.

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