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[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

The European tally line diagonal from top left to bottom right feels wrong.

I usually see it the other way.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yep, the example in OP seems wrong (for right handed people), it's very awkward line to pull

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not in my experience. Diagonal down is easy to pull

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always felt the same about the "no" sign:

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks to me as if all the ghosts have been busted.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago
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5th panel is lit

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Since when is Brazil not part of South America?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We’re special. 😂 I guess because we are a lot similar to other South American countries, but also very different. For instance, we don’t even speak Spanish.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it gets debunked.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Oh? I can confirm it's true for North America and China, at least.

Is it the middle one that gets debunked?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Brazilian here, some of us do use the middle one

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I dig that one. I'm going to start using it over the N American set

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I've never seen the middle one but that just my personal experience ofc. What I do myself is the left one with a horizontal line

Edit: forgot to mention I'm from Brazil too

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Right one is 100% used in Japan. Particularly at bars and such for keeping track of how many of that drink the person/table has ordered.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

French here we use both the middle and the left. It depends on the group of friends.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The Asian one makes no sense.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the final one is the symbol for "five" and it takes 5 strokes to draw. it'd be like drawing a 5 one segment at a time in an eight segment number display as the tally marks.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

You are wrong. This is the character for "correct". "Five" is similar. Both have five strokes.

五 = five

正 = correct, positive

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

“Five” 五 has four strokes

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, you are right. It's been a couple of decades since I actually had to write Japanese by hand.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's the character for 'correct', which doesn't really explain much. Best I can figure it's just that it's a common character with five strokes in a satisfying right-down-right-down-right order.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I do the middle one but start with 4 dots, then connect those dots with lines, then do 2 lines crossing in the middle. it gives you 10 in a small space. So in the pictures there it would be 3, 5, 7, 8, 9.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds really efficient.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thought this was Loss for a second

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I downvoted instinctively.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just feel like the figure on the right should have each unit be the same length. Why should four be denoted with a shorter length?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In france I lften see both the middle and left ones.

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