Re: The year dot (was: Ebisedian number system)

--- In conlang@y..., Ray Brown <ray.brown@F...> wrote:

> > 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!  ;-)
>
> It has obviously escaped Mr Thalmann's noticed that zero simply did
> not figure in earlier number systems!   Never used Roman numbers?
Indeed, that has escaped me.  I was under the impression that the
peculiarity of the time system was due to the Church not liking
the thought of Christ being born in the year naught.  At least
that was my mother's guess when I asked her about that many years
ago.  ;-)

In the interest of the list, I will reply to the rest of the message
in private.


-- Christian Thalmann

Reply