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The Strangeness of Indo-European Number Numericals
I can possibly see this coming like if you have gods or some sort of other symbols associated with numbers you can easily use third names instead for maybe common counting. Or there's taboo avoidance issues where a number is very similar to another word or name of a god or particular taboo word so people invent a new number. Yeah you can do all sorts of things. There's also the supposedly there's the numbers are prone to an irregular sound changes there where they imminate numbers that are close to them. But that happened to Latin where Penquay became what Proto-Indo-European Penquay gained a cuss sound at the front and started to peak. Right. Well it was