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mcc

Update: It finally got to numbers, and it taught us… 2, 1, 9, and 8… in that order… and no other numbers?? This is so specific I feel like it must be intentional but why? Pimsleur-sensei what are you doing

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mcc

Is this a Clue to a Puzzle. At some point in the next 24 hours am I going to encounter a keypad to which the combination is 2198

mcc

Okay did the next lesson today and this time they taught us 3, 5, and 4, only those three and in that order. They must be doing this on purpose?? Maybe they think if they teach them in order we'll be bad at random recall because we'll be counting to 8 in our heads every time we need to say eight?

mcc

*throws open the door to the Internet* I CAN COUNT TO TEN!!!

mcc

…is what I was GOING to say after tonight's lesson, however also this evening I watched an anime about a vampire who becomes a YouTuber, and I noticed a pattern, which means I can now count to *hovering in air glowing* 99

mcc

Note: I am assuming the Japanese language doesn't have some kind of French-style prank where the number "seventy" and nothing else follows a different rule from every number before it

mcc replied to mcc

The language learning app already explained to me the pranks on "3,000" and "7,000", you don't need to explain that to me

mcc replied to mcc

OKAY after getting some help from my wife I can now count to 109,999 but not a single unit higher

mcc replied to mcc

At some point I'm going to learn the Japanese name for Knuth's up-arrow notation and then y'all're fucked

mcc replied to mcc

*poking at Google Translate* "Knuthu-sensei no Yajirushi"? If I said that to a Japanese mathematician would it mean something?

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