Timeline for Examples of different languages with mathematically different names for concepts
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| Jun 8 at 14:58 | answer | added | Torsten Schoeneberg | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 8 at 6:09 | comment | added | Tommi | @JustinHancock please answer as an answer | |
| Jun 8 at 6:05 | comment | added | Tommi | @user58697 If the words referring to the same concept have a mathematically different meaning in different languages, then that is interesting. | |
| Jun 8 at 0:36 | comment | added | Justin Hancock | @quarague The words for odd in English, Swedish and Icelandic all come from the same word in Old Norse. Greek also has distinct words for odd and even. Outside of Europe, Arabic does as well, and Chinese and the languages it influenced too. | |
| Jun 7 at 13:22 | comment | added | quarague | @user58697 I think the word for odd being not-even is common in a lot of languages, it's also true in German and French, my guess would be that English having a special word is the exception. | |
| Jun 7 at 0:41 | comment | added | Justin Hancock | Off the top of my head I can think of many examples between Chinese and English. The word for polygon in Chinese also refers to sides and not angles. Fractions are read with the denominator first. An interesting one is that equations are called 方程, fangcheng, which roughly means “rectangular array,” for historical reasons that are explained in the link. | |
| Jun 7 at 0:36 | comment | added | user58697 | Russian for set, множество, means multitude. Russian for odd, нечетный, means not-even. Are these the kind of examples you are looking for? | |
| Jun 6 at 9:22 | comment | added | Dominique | I live in Belgium and I can tell you that, from the moment you accept another language to be used in your class, you won't be able to stop the multilingual flood which will tsunami you. Therefore, how difficult and unnatural it might seem, consider the usage of just one language in your classroom. | |
| Jun 5 at 11:02 | history | asked | Tommi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |