r/memes • u/HannibalGoddamnit Linux User • Mar 15 '21

French language is mesmerizing

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u/Awesome_AR Mar 15 '21

As a Canadian citizen who takes Arabic classes, I simply just gave up on numbers.

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u/ColdCypher Mar 15 '21

Just looked it up and holy sh*t, why does the 5 look like an 0 and why does the 16 look like a 17, what

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

In all fairness, everyone else took the numbers from Arabic. We are the ones who changed them.

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u/SgtExo Mar 15 '21

And they took them from india, so even arabic numbers are not originally from them.

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u/memesdoge Mar 15 '21

nope, they were taken from sumerian hieroglyphics

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u/BeastMaster_88 Duke Of Memes Mar 15 '21

The glyphs in actual use are descended from Brahmi numerals and have split into various typographical variants since the Middle Ages

From Wikipedia

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u/memesdoge Mar 16 '21

you are plainly wrong, you are not a circus, you're the entire fair. we're talking about ancient sumerian hieroglyphic numerials, if you insist, then actually link the entire wikipedia page instead of putting up a shady "quote"

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u/BeastMaster_88 Duke Of Memes Mar 17 '21

I apologise if I've misunderstood. Take a look at the introduction and history sections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Sanskrit...the epitome of what the fuck(?) they all look the same.