Melkath
7 year cool down, and unless you are Trump and can afford extremely expensive legal representation, your odds of actually getting a full discharge of debt go down.
As a gamer, I was going to come in with an edgy "that's what you get" joke, but with this added info... I'm doubling down on a "that's what you get" joke.
You can't win if you don't play.
gentle fist bump
I am sure at least a few times over 12 years of education I was told they are Arabic numerals.
One of those times was probably minutes after my history teacher said "go to Mexico and look at the street signs, same numbers. Go to China and look at the street signs, different letters same numbers. Go to Sweden. You have no idea what the words are but you know the numbers. Go to Japan. You are lost, nothing is familiar, you don't understand any of the words, written or spoken. You thought you knew how to kind of quietly read the nonverbal language and not be a jerk, but you will always be the jerk in Japan... bit you understand the numbers..."
I was just a typical American, selectively listened, got my diploma anyway though.
Good thread. Giving me shit to contemplate and shit.
When it's politics and I'm confident in my position, I can be a raging asshole while asserting my position.
When it is something I am straight up cut and dry wrong about and its an opportunity to learn, I try to learn.
Middle-old American here.
I was taught "numbers" and Roman Numerals.
Post high school (largely because I work with data for a living) I have been exposed to the concept that there are a wide variety of numeral systems out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems
When responding to the prompt, I was thinking something to the effect of the first table on that wiki page and went "nah, Americans struggle hard enough with basic English Numerals, adding other numeral systems would be a complete nightmare." Not because I'm racist, because I'm simple dumb.
Little did I know my American public education in the 90s/00s ass I was stepping into a "dangers of dihydrogen monoxide" trap.
Great example of "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to simple ignorance."
I'm learning on this thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals
I misinterpreted my quick Google and thought Eastern Arabic Numerals were Arabic Numerals.
Then I googled "British Numerals" to find the proper name and Google told me the proper name was English Numerals.
Thanks for the clarification. It looks like my google glance was too sloppy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
My glance lead me to believe these are Arabic numerals but they are EASTERN Arabic Numerals.