Younger daughter asked me the other day "Who invented numbers?". And I thought for about a tenth of a second and said "The arabs", which isn't all that true but it seemed to satisfy her, and - now that I think about it - is a pretty good answer to any question of this type.
She thought for a moment, then asked a follow-up question: "Daddy, did they have numbers when you were little?"
About Me
- SleepingMan
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- I've lived in Australia, US, UK and Singapore and I've been to North Korea, Ukraine, Colombia. I live in a very sparsely-furnished flat in Sydney. I have a real job (and a graduate degree from an Ivy League university) and in my spare time I play piano, think too much and play tennis. I'm actively trying to make my life more bizarre.
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James - my granddaughter Grace is like one of your yads was - pronounces "L"s as "Y"s. Imagine my delight the other day when she was watching a music channel, and she told me the name of the singer: it was Lily Allen!
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