I hate that when i see memes like this all i can think is "its only a matter of time before stupid people share this with other stupid people unironically"
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It probably happened before you even saw the meme.
Fox News is gonna run a piece on how we must eliminate Arabic numerals from American society. Your family will be talking about this travesty at Thanksgiving.
I shared it ironically with a group of people that won't understand it. I proceed to watch silently as they raise their cortisol levels.
I learned Arabic numerals in 1978 in preschool in Wyoming, and I never became a terrorist.
Never became a terrorist so far.
Well to be fair, the republicunts would prefer kids not learn any numbers because only stupid people vote for Cons...
I don’t know man, something about his damn smile is so funny to me. It’s so smug, he’s always smiling like he just absolutely knows he’s making some very rich assholes panic and I love everything about it.
I highly doubt they're panicking. If they're even aware they're perturbed at best.
Fair, panicking was probably a bit of a stretch there. But I like how they at least burn a bunch of money on his political opponents
This post came directly from Al Jazeer which references Al Gebra.
ITS AN OUTRAGE I TELL YOU! MATH IS AMERICAN! INVENTED IN AMERICA!
He's indoctrinating out youth with a satanic Muslim mysticism called Al-Gebra.
in case some people don't know: algebra actually comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr".
Number one justification for islamophobia and sinophobia.
I legit never heard the word sinophobia and I thought it was a trigonometry joke.
I guess we need a joke that combines math and racism then.
It's the 0th cause of Indophobia?
Sorry, didn't mean to go off on a tangent.
Ahh yes. The good ol' 1 2 3s!
Funny that in Chinese, I literally have always known it as 阿拉伯數字 (Arabic Numerals).
I'm starting to realize more and more how much the Chinese Language is just simply better at teaching concepts.
Disclaimer, I am ethnic Chinese, but I'm totally not biased at all :D
Edit:
Also, while we're on the topic of Numerals, teach Chinese Numbers as well, its literally one syllable per character, much easier to pronounce and remember.
English has become my primary language, but I still often find myself counting in Chinese (Cantonese).
We call them Arabic numerals too but the street name is numbers. Very powerful concept
I once said "Arabic Numerals" in class (US), and my classmates thought I was trying to be racist... like... bruh... that's literally what these nunbers are called...
So yeah... I never used that term once again.
They're definitely known as Arabic numerals elsewhere too. It's mentioned in Math class fairly early on when Roman numerals are also introduced. I'm sure that even in American schools, it's mentioned that they're called Arabic numerals.
Unless you mean that in Chinese there's just no word for "numbers" and you have to use the name of the specific system?
I mean, I've personally never heard of the term "Arabic Numeral" being uttered in a classroom from 2nd grade all the way through Highschool in the US Schools I've went to. It's just "write the numbers in words" or in "numbers/digits".
Damn, maybe the US system is worse than I thought.
There are so many general knowledge things that aren't necessary for survival or to do your job that the general populace seems to lack. This is one of them
Which is a sad indictment of the school system you attended.
Chinese/Japanese characters have kindof always led to good student outcomes in wrote memorization because of the necessity of pattern recognition. With an alphabet there’s simply less to learn, and you don’t have much context since etymology in alphabet based languages is so much more esoteric.
Also, Americans aren’t really taught much about technology from outside of the American sphere of influence. American schooling has a lot of dead zones.
Roman! Cousin, let's go bowling!
literally in the middle of a fucking mission
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you can count on it
Would have been a better headline!
I This is Roman discrimination II Half of MAGA doesnt know what an Arabic numeral is. III Reeeeeeeeeee IV Roman numerals are superior
一二三四五六七八九十
i like these :)
One syllable per character. Coolest language ever. :D
(Also hardest characters to remember)
one syllable per character
一 is pronounced "i-chi"
Oh lol, I automatically assumed Chinese because that is the language I know...
(But I mean... the Kanji is the same as the 漢字 (HanZi), its not always obvious which language is being referred to lol)
ohhh in chinese yeah. yi ar san right? :3
ichi ni san yon go rokku nana hachi kyuu juu
so close, its acutally "nya ichi ni san, nya arigatou"
I am sad that i was wrong with jaPenis here is an image about to represent how i feel
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