I really like the method for counting to 12 on your fingers as shown at the end of the video, and use it often (using my thumb as my point/counting finger, on my right hand, and using the fingers on my left had to count each unit of 12. That makes counting to 60 easy-peasy.
The main problem I have with that "Dozenal Society's" proposal is that the two names for the 'new' numbers they've chosen are simply altered pronunciations of the base ten names we already use...
The linguist part of me (especially the linguist part of me that's fed up with Euro-centrism) would rather they took number names from a language/culture that already counts in Base Twelve.
*Remembers that Internet Search is a thing*
I think I'll go look up the old Sumerian names, and start using them myself, anyway.
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Re: Yes ...
Date: 2018-07-15 05:38 pm (UTC)I really like the method for counting to 12 on your fingers as shown at the end of the video, and use it often (using my thumb as my point/counting finger, on my right hand, and using the fingers on my left had to count each unit of 12. That makes counting to 60 easy-peasy.
The main problem I have with that "Dozenal Society's" proposal is that the two names for the 'new' numbers they've chosen are simply altered pronunciations of the base ten names we already use...
The linguist part of me (especially the linguist part of me that's fed up with Euro-centrism) would rather they took number names from a language/culture that already counts in Base Twelve.
*Remembers that Internet Search is a thing*
I think I'll go look up the old Sumerian names, and start using them myself, anyway.