Comments by "Anonymous" (@Anonymous-df8it) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. Oh, so that's where the rule came from!
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  2.  @anthonyobryan3485  ???
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  3. Next we'll be spelling native English words with runes.
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  4. Or you can just remove the 'g' in reign!
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  5. It's a schwa
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  6. Pronunciation is hard because a) the phonotactics are too loose, or b) it's difficult to discern pronunciation from spelling.
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  7.  @allangibson8494  It can keep its spelling.
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  8.  @Ruhrpottpatriot  Base 6 is better.
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  9.  @Ruhrpottpatriot  1/5=0.111111... Now tell me what 1/5 in base 12 is again? Same goes with 1/7. Base 6 can easily handle the first four primes, whereas base 12 has fifths and sevenths that are mathematically the worst they can be. Single digit quarters are not necessary as if you have single digit halves (even number base) and you can't be bothered to remember what a quarter is, it's trivial to derive (halving a half; halving is easy) Also, with the finger counting bit, if you used your left hand for ones and your right hand to count sixes (so that the person reading it can just read from left to right), you get a base 6 finger counting system!
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  10.  @Ruhrpottpatriot  Handling primes well is actually very important when deciding a number base. The more primes you can handle, the more numbers you can divide by, as they would be the products of powers of said primes. Also, using the wrong numbers for convenience can make your food taste like $h!t. Also, yes, you can count to 12 like that, but I could count to 144 on both hands (using phalanges for 0-11) and then double that by adding whether or not my left hand is up (left hand down + number=number, left hand up + number=number+144) to count to 288. Should I use base 288? I could count in 11s by counting to ten, then restarting the count at 11. Should I? I could count in binary based on whether each finger is up or down, but does that mean I should use base 2? Of course not!
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  11.  @Ruhrpottpatriot  Isn't the main argument for base 12 being able to handle many numbers? Also, my point with the last one is that finger counting doesn't matter when choosing the best number base.
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  12.  @rateeightx  Except that now, non-native words would be spelt using the Latin Alphabet, making it like the situation with Japanese
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  13.  @mikicerise6250  The US only has ~30 billion dollars in debt. See the problem?
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  14. What does Cantonese call a trillion?
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  15.  @vincentng2392  And what does that mean in Mandarin?
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  16.  @vincentng2392  Well, that's redundant
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