Do we really need West and South when we can use negative North and negative East?
Why do we have 2 separate words for good and bad? Good and ungood are totally sufficient.
That’s actually how it works in Irish. The word for good is deas, while the word for bad is deas prefixed with the negating particle mí, so mídheas.
(There are still separate words for tge cardinal directions).
Spin it further and get rid of “great” and “outstanding”. I suggest using plus good and double plus good.
How would that be any easier?
Why do we have down when we can just use negative up?
Why do we have subtraction when we can just add a negative number?
What goes up, must come negative-Up
One step forward and two steps un-forward.
This is just the Minecraft coordinates system and it sucks. “OK I’m at the coords, where’s the–oh fuck, it was -3002, 108 not 3002, 108.”
180° of Arctica and then 180°of Antarctica. Reasonable.
Other languages kinda do. In Spanish, east and west are este and oeste. Italian is est and ovest.
I would not be surprised compasses were invented before negative numbers
This is basic coordinate usage. Negative latitudes are South. And 180 or -180 is half a planet away from the prime meridien. West of England are negative longitudes.
Whatever, Nancy.
Why don’t clocks have just 4 numbers?
And I say we don’t have enough names, we should have names for at least 30° and 45° increments.
We do, they’re just combinations of the 90 degree ones.
Southwest. North-Northeast.
Yeah, there are 32 named points on a compass, one every 11.25 degrees, you can even fractionalize it to get even more granular
Southwest by west half west for example is 242 degrees
Most Mediterranean cultures used to have names for at least eight winds, each at 45 degrees from each other. Greeks (and therefore Romans) used twelve, at 30 degrees.
Here’s a classic navigator’s wind rose, for instance, with 32 different directions based on eight named winds (might be a bit hard to read on dark backgrounds, here’s the original SVG):
If the four cardinal points bother you, better not look up wind roses or rhumbline networks…
Mind officially blown. 🤯
Why do we have 26 letters? Why not just communicate in binary!
01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101100 00100001
55 73 65 20 68 65 78 20 66 6f 72 20 74 65 72 73 65 6e 65 73 73 20 62 72 75 68 0a 0a 41 6c 73 6f 20 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 73 74 69 6c 6c 20 61 73 73 75 6d 69 6e 67 20 55 54 46 2d 38 20 6f 72 20 61 74 20 6c 65 61 73 74 20 41 53 43 49 49 2c 20 73 6f 20 77 74 68 20 6c 6d 61 6f
On the other hand, 8000+ characters seems kinda fun…
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hint
The joke is “wo cao ni ma bi”, change the tones and you got 我操你妈逼 🤭
oh you salty dog you
…(🤷♂️)
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