Not knowing that II IS Roman numerals for two might mean she went to Quality Learing Center but could not know that we are a long ways from World War 11.
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I can believe that she never learned how to use Roman Numerals. After all, the Hindus invented the Hindu number system, and the west received it from the Arabs, first calling it the Arabic number system and later the Hindu-Arabic system, each adopting it because it was easier to use than the Roman System, although as recently as in Medieval Britain the farmers and peasants paying taxes preferred the Roman System because they could see the totals as they accumulated on the Shire-Reeve's checkered table cloth.
ReplyDeleteWith the new system, the columns were totaled up in the clerk's mind and written down.
Secondly, Lawrence Welk once introduced a song as having been written and performed during "World War Eye."
Some wag on X was suggesting that from now on she be known as "Eleven-han Zero-mar."
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