The Tender For Law

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ENGLISH is the international language of law and commerce. Knowing FRENCH is useful for understanding LEGAL ENGLISH, but FRENCH is not the international language of law and commerce, so we will ignore French speakers who speak to us in the language of a conquered people.

Non.

I understand that you are a proud Québécois, but the people here have nothing but contempt for you because of decades of transfer payments and NONE OF YOU understanding what Quebec sovereignty means. None of you know who Russell Rogers Smith is, and you're too proud and arrogant to teach. Just go away and be Retardier somewhere else.

Volume 8

Nov 16, 2014 3:17 PM

T?lis B?auns

re. Tally sticks using numerals as a low-tech accounting system. One hypothesis is that Etrusco-Roman numerals actually derive from notches on tally sticks, which continued to be used by Italian and Dalmatian shepherds into the 19th century. Every fifth notch was double cut i.e. ?, ?, ?, ?, etc.), and every tenth was cross cut (X), IIII?IIIIXIIII?IIIIXII..., much like European tally marks today. The tenth V or X along the stick received an extra stroke. Thus 50 was written variously as N, ?, K, ?, ?, etc., but perhaps most often as a chicken-track shape like a superimposed V and I: ?. This had flattened to ? (an inverted T) by the time of Augustus, and soon thereafter became identified with the graphically similar letter L..