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inopinatus • 01/22/2025 • 0 replies • view on HN

Apropos of which I learned today that some languages have not merely a plural, but a whole complex of representations for cardinality, including rather more of the counting values than I expected, and variations for uncertainty and optionality (some might say, superposition).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_number#Types_of_nu...