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When my two year old can't count the items in front of him he just says it's "many".

• a9h74j 5y ago
  IIRC (edit: and as alluded in the article) there are languages which count as "one, two, three, many". But one two and three are also innate (immediately recognizable) quantities are they not? So does a person using such a number system actually count, or recognize and categorize only?
  • perardi 5y ago
    This Lexicon Valley podcast goes into the “having a vocabulary for large numbers is actually weird” thing. https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2021/03/english-language-not-normal https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2021/03/english-la...
    • a9h74j 5y ago
      Great addition (no pun intended), thanks.
  • ezconnect 5y ago
    Depends on context maybe, Koreans have different number names depending on context.
  • desas 5y ago
    The piraha language is probably the most famous non-counting language. They appear to recognise - https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/piraha-cognitive-anumeracy-in-a-language-without-numbers.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/piraha-cognitive-an...
• agumonkey 5y ago
  One two infinity