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Re: language and spatio-temporal orientation
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2010 Jul 26, 10:11 -0700
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2010 Jul 26, 10:11 -0700
Marcel,
Your assertion:
"The Arabic language is written from right to left but not the numbers; they are written from left to right" contains the implicit assumption that numbers must be stated from largest to smallest digits. This is not the case even in European languages; 24 is still vierundzwanzig in German and four-and-twenty is early English usage ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals),
Regards,
Robin Stuart
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