Mathematicians seem to pride themselves on their precision, but there are a few catch phrases/words they continually chuck around. Here I'm offering a glossay for some of them.
Canonical = well, like, it's obvious, I mean, come on!
Well defined = does what I want it to do
Well behaved = doesn't break the arbitrary rules I just established
Up to = well, ya know, more or less, give or take, know what I mean?
Quotiented by = See? Any noun can be verbed!
Inter alia = I know some French, er, Italian, or er, something
One easily sees that = I can't be bothered with the next 10 pages of calculations. Besides I don't understand them.
Obviously = Or so I read
Beautiful result = I finally understood it, aren't I clever, dummy.
A simple calculation shows = I missed that lecture, let's fudge it.
These are the first that spring to mind. Any others, anyone?