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To: grundle

Also Chinese, Korean, and Japanese have stroke orders and numbers for writing, so much of the foundation of their language is mathematical. We say ‘a’ and you can write it anyway you want as long as you get close, but if you write 亜 it’s written in a specific stroke order and direction, with a certain number of strokes.

Also, most Asian parents force their kids to learn multiplication tables from memory, so kids are used to memorizing formulae, functions, etc.


29 posted on 09/21/2024 8:18:50 AM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle
And then there's Polish......

Ways to say "two" in Polish:


31 posted on 09/21/2024 8:21:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: struggle
learn multiplication tables from memory

Within living memory, that was the norm in these United States.

53 posted on 09/21/2024 8:37:07 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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