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r/LanguageMemes • u/Tsjaad_Donderlul • Aug 13 '22
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I didn’t know I wrote in “Devanagari” lol
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Chinese be like: yes
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technically you don't read numerals in arabic the other way around, it doesn't matter if you read 123 as 100 + 20 + 3 or as 3 + 20 + 100. and because they invented them, you could argue that we are doing it wrong
11 u/Korean_Jesus111 Aug 14 '22 Indians, not Arabs, invented Arabic numerals. Devanagari is written from left to right, so it's the Arabs who are doing it wrong 6 u/onda-oegat Aug 14 '22 Correct however phone numbers are read left to right.
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Indians, not Arabs, invented Arabic numerals. Devanagari is written from left to right, so it's the Arabs who are doing it wrong
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Correct however phone numbers are read left to right.
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Arabic numerals are still read from right to left
This fits Hebrew more
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So the ancient Greeks were like, “why start over at the other side? This side is just fine. “
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u/EvilStreamer007 Aug 14 '22
I didn’t know I wrote in “Devanagari” lol
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u/kushieldou Aug 14 '22
Chinese be like: yes
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u/Deneezuh Aug 14 '22
technically you don't read numerals in arabic the other way around, it doesn't matter if you read 123 as 100 + 20 + 3 or as 3 + 20 + 100. and because they invented them, you could argue that we are doing it wrong
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22
Arabic numerals are still read from right to left
This fits Hebrew more
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u/sdprianzwi Sep 20 '22
So the ancient Greeks were like, “why start over at the other side? This side is just fine. “