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All Greek immigrants have spoken Greenglish for decades. Sentences were usually a mix of Greek and English in my youth. This forced me to be right brained and a
by bawana 6y ago
All Greek immigrants have spoken Greenglish for decades. Sentences were usually a mix of Greek and English in my youth. This forced me to be right brained and assign meaning to words through imagery. I still visualize a lot and in fact it continues to hobble me in certain areas of physics (quantum) where mechanistic thinking and visual models are not sufficiently descriptive.
Perhaps the most amazing thing about ancient Greeks is that they used letters to represent digits. I still cannot wrap my brain around the fact that a word like 'spiti' could have a linguistic as well as numerical interpretation that every ancient Greek would know.
Today, all computation with language uses unicode to represent letters. I tried once to make an ancient Greek number to arabic number(the numbers used in English today) converter but failed miserably.
Claude Shannon actually made a calculator that used Roman numerals.