Other idiosyncratic elements of Erdős' vocabulary include:
- children were referred to as "epsilons";
- women were "bosses";
- men were "slaves";
- people who stopped doing math had "died";
- people who physically died had "left";
- alcoholic drinks were "poison";
- music was "noise";
- people who had married were "captured";
- people who had divorced were "liberated";
- to give a mathematical lecture was "to preach" and
- to give an oral exam to a student was "to torture" him/her.
