the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

so far it looks like the majority of people agree with us on this, but there's sufficient disagreement that this phrasing should probably be avoided in favor of something more unambiguous
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@socks it seems a lot of people find it counterintuitive going by the results so far! probably best to avoid that wording, like you said
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@socks honestly slightly surprised! the impression we got is that the Official Mathematical Convention™, such as it exists, is that smaller/larger are always synonymous with lesser/greater, and we assumed that you, being a mathematician, would probably follow that convention
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@socks orthography is weird

reminds me of how the only reason the latin alphabet has the letter k (that sound was already represented by c, after all) is because people insisted on using it for greek loanwords because greek stuff was Fancy at the time

why that letter and not literally any other part of the greek alphabet, i couldn't say
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we think of words like "smaller" or "larger" in the context of numbers to refer to the magnitude of the number, not absolute directions on a number line
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which would you say sounds more correct?
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@socks I didn't know Spanish even had w, given how Spanish orthography influenced Nahuatl orthography (the Spanish missionaries used ⟨hu⟩ to represent /w/)

I wonder how the /g/ pronunciation came to be?
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@Draekos at the very least I understand what it is now, though I don't think that will help with getting the point across to others.

still, I apologize, I should read things more carefully
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@Draekos sorry. i wanted to help but i think i just made things worse. please don't blame yourself for that
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@Draekos I think it's my fault not yours
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@Draekos sorry--i did read the whole thread, i think i just completely misunderstood what the problem was

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@Draekos I thought you were saying the problem was that people were trying to include too many things in one thing, I didn't really know what you were talking about exactly

I shouldn't have tried to help without knowing more about what the actual problem was, sorry
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@Draekos Sorry--I guess I misunderstood what the problem was then.
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@Draekos It might work better if you encourage or require them to stick to two or three (or whatever you consider a good number)?
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@heatherhorns this seems abusive to us
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@packbat And relatively few people use watches these days, in favor of smartphones and other electronic equipment--which last even less time.
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@sharkNserg Four thumbs up
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@Zest @sharkNserg all of the conniepets!
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cute fluffy mustelids
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