On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I think my favourite is the guy who claims that the reason natural languages > all count from 1 is because the Romans failed to invent zero. (What about > languages that didn't derive from Latin, say, Chinese?) And that now that > we have zero, counting from it should be more natural. So if you give > somebody two apples, but no banana, and ask them to count their apples, > they would count "Zero, one... therefore I have two apples". And if you > then ask them to count their bananas, they would do what?
They would respond that there is a subtle difference between "Please count your bananas" and "Please, Count... you're bananas". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
