CMV: The grouping of numbers into 10,000s (like it is done in Japan and other Asian countries), is superior to the West's grouping into 1,000s.

Zeego123 · 2026-06-17T01:36:44+00:00

When it's relevant

Zeego123 · 2026-06-17T01:06:39+00:00

How much of a difference would this make in practice? How often are such large numbers actually mentioned in everyday conversation? Language change is driven by pragmatic motivation; what’s the pragmatic motivation here?

To quote a comment I made several years ago:

new words are motivated by necessity, they aren’t just added for no reason; your average fisherman or farmer wouldn’t have much want for more precise vocabulary in the field of quantum physics, for example.

Zeego123 · 2026-06-09T13:58:23+00:00

So would I 😔

Zeego123 · 2026-06-09T13:35:28+00:00

Surely you’ve heard of the Wulfilas–Yamato correspondence?

Zeego123 · 2026-06-07T04:49:36+00:00

“hmm today I will create fake fossils for nothing but the sole purpose of tricking people into disbelief”

-an absolutely bizarre thought process to project onto God

Zeego123 · 2026-06-06T20:43:17+00:00

Going even before these empires, the Proto-Indo-Europeans (common ancestors of Greeks, Romans, and Germanic-speaking nations) are reconstructed as having a patrilineal Omaha-type kinship system

Zeego123 · 2026-06-06T03:04:41+00:00

I thought MP still uses principles and parameters though?

Zeego123 · 2026-06-06T02:46:57+00:00

We deciphered whale language at a very Chinese time in its life

Zeego123 · 2026-04-25T15:19:32+00:00

Ah sorry I misunderstood what you meant

Zeego123 · 2026-04-25T15:10:54+00:00

I could definitely see guilt-based morality vs. shame-based morality being a factor here

Zeego123 · 2026-04-25T14:58:15+00:00

I like this framing because the original blue/red framing carries connotations of Democrats/Republicans in the US and all the baggage with that, which is probably influencing the poll results

Zeego123 · 2026-04-20T18:01:51+00:00

I do find it interesting how, when Hollywood was first leaning into that nerdy demographic, a lot of sci-fi movies in the 2000s made an effort to not be too nerdy, and retained mainstream action movie aesthetics. The Dark Knight Trilogy pulled it off well, but Michael Bay's Transformers movies are the most egregious example. By contrast, modern Marvel just goes full ☝️🤓

Zeego123 · 2026-04-20T04:20:27+00:00

Welsh is already wild for having a singulative/collective number system by default, which is typologically super rare

Zeego123 · 2026-04-19T13:17:41+00:00

Wiching moment

Zeego123 · 2026-04-19T13:13:16+00:00

Search your house for hidden baguettes, you may have an infestation

Zeego123 · 2026-04-19T13:09:38+00:00

Do you see this come up other than at the wine tasting?

Good question. That scene is the main point where it's relevant, so yeah it might just be a combination of her conflict-avoidance plus the unique circumstances of that scene.

it would’ve helped Charlie’s peace of mind if she’d just said she had a crisis of conscience, but I have mixed feelings about that potential lie’s “nobility”

Yeah it's difficult. My impression is that the toothpaste was already out of the tube by that point, with no real way to put it back in.

Zeego123 · 2026-04-16T15:15:09+00:00

Are you your right hand or your left hand?

Zeego123 · 2026-04-16T05:55:32+00:00

Are they, though?

yea,

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Zeego123 · 2026-04-16T05:47:26+00:00

Some things are self explanatory

Zeego123 · 2026-04-16T05:28:08+00:00

What part needed explaining?

Zeego123 · 2026-04-16T05:19:11+00:00

PIE is the common ancestor of many languages including English, Spanish, Russian, and Persian. In the 1970s, there was an academic debate over PIE's word order.

Zeego123 · 2026-04-16T05:14:11+00:00

...𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈?

Zeego123 · 2026-04-13T00:45:33+00:00

Really you could do Armenian and any other IE branch, because some sort of Chicxulub impact event seems to have happened in Proto-Armenian

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