From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>
> Christian Thalmann writes:
> >
> > You can always blame it on religion, which is probably even older
> > than counting, and can justify just about any counterintuitive
> > social feature. Just think of how there's no year "0" in our time
> > reckoning! ;-)
> >
>
> I don't think there's anything particularly counterintuitive about the
> first year being called "1".
The counterintuituity comes in that the year before it is also "1", not "0".
*Muke!
(who just mistyped "conlang" as "coonlang" in the to: field...)
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