274: Not and Never Both
Dear Hank & John
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I Love That Linguistic Detective Work
Most european languages had a direct word for bear, that became taboo to say out loud. In sumerians, we're all base 60, and so they counted and an base 60, which is why we have 360 degrees in a circle. The ancient greek as had like a 16 hour day, yes? But then, ours were longer that actually. Ye, notinot sort of equally discombobulateng ah.
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