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Numerals are basically logograms, right?

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-24 17:35

Sup /lang/, it just occured to me that there's really nothing inherent about numerals like 1, 2, 3 that would lead speakers to pronounce them "one", "two", and "three", and indeed, a Spanish speaker would look at those numbers and use entirely different words like uno, dos, and tres.

Numerals therefore follow the same principle as a logogram, but is it entirely a logogram? I mean, we also have derivations like 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, which are derived from different words but use the same numeral/symbol.

Name: Anonymous 2016-07-27 4:07

Numbers are not the same thing as numerals.

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