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		dm2 on Oct 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens when a language has no numbers? It's not much different than most people rarely using Greek characters as formulas or constants.

seandougall on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

Pretty different, actually -- the point is that they (supposedly) have no counting system at all. They lack the concept of numbers, not just the words.

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