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As anyone who has taken Anthropolgy 101, for many primitive cultures, 2+2= “many”.


41 posted on 07/07/2020 8:53:28 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: VanShuyten
As anyone who has taken Anthropolgy 101, for many primitive cultures, 2+2= “many”.

To be fair, I seem to remember that most early cultures with a language had words for up to the number 20 (meaning they could count on their fingers and toes), and then had a word meaning 'a bunch' for anything larger. I know this is true in "early" Japanese, which had words for 1 (hitotsu) to 20 (hatachi), though later obtaining a more expansive number alphabet from the Chinese, via the Koreans.

That reminds me, however, of how when the man who discovered the zero was praised for his work, he is said to have replied that it was nothing.

48 posted on 07/07/2020 9:04:58 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: VanShuyten
As anyone who has taken Anthropolgy 101, for many primitive cultures, 2+2= “many”.

I have no aspirations to transform the west into a primitive culture. Apprantly lefty social justice warriors think that it's easier to tear down the west than it is to elevate the people they claim to represent. Because leftists are bigots who ensnare minorities in a trap of unending poverty by convincing them that the low expectations leftists have of them are correct and they really are lesser.

53 posted on 07/07/2020 9:15:07 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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