… very curious folk, the Romans.

Spoken like a true gaul!

Ok, sure, she did not read the instructions. But what is the problem of guessing black? Obviously, if they are asking you to guess, that must mean there is some level of uncertainty regarding the child’s colour. Humans do not come in many different colours but black is surely one of them. It would have been really weird, for instance, if someone were to guess blue

In portuguese? Absolutely! In english, not so much.

Nope. In portuguese we do not call the toes “fingers of the feet”. In fact we do not have a word for fingers. Or toes. What we have instead is a word for thoses appendages that one can find at the end of one’s arms or legs. We call them “dedos”. Most of time we do not feel the need to specify if we are talking about fingers or toes. Context is usually enough to distinguish between the two. But when do have to be specific, we call the fingers “dedos of the hands” and the toes “dedos of the feet”. Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages feel the need to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

Someone told me. Oh, wait… Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest I know it from personal experience. I am a polite boy and I always ask about other people’s units.

I think they mean 23 days. Never assume you know the units. It can lead to a lot of trouble. Ask me how I know.

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