• Scrollone@feddit.it
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    3 days ago

    I mean… in English we also use different words, such as “pair” and “dozen”, for some specific numbers.

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      2 days ago

      But those are just words for “a group of a special size”

      Some eastern languages have totally different counting words depending on WHAT you’re counting. One set of number-words for flat things, another set for long things, another set for printed/bound things, another set for things with handles…