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grassmannian
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Latin has a few more sets of numbers than the usual ordinals and cardinals, including a full set of adverbial numbers, e.g. "semel, bis, ter, quater,..." whereas English has "once, twice, thrice" but this caps out at 3, and rumor has it the word "thrice" is frowned upon. There are several other constructs, such as generalizing "a pair of lawyers handled each case" to arbitrarily sized groups, with "vīcēnī" functioning in English as "a 20 of lawyers handled each case"

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_numerals for additional forms of Latin numbers.
grassmannian
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Interestingly, it seems like some women's monastic communities (ostensibly the pinnacle of rich spiritual life and engagement with community) are much less likely to experience midlife crises, see https://www.jstor.org/stable/43682330 Figures 1 and 2.