really curious thing about chinese labels for things in history or perhaps elsewhere is the tendency to label things in groups and explicitly counting the number of those things
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americans would just call these "the pest war", "the first purge", "japanese war crimes", and "the biden dam"
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that's interesting--we tend to name things after people, objects, or in sequence maybe?
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sequence: first through ninth crusades world wars one and two charles II of spain first, second industrial revolutions
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people: too many memorials to count alexandrias mantrap lake boston georgia Napoleonic wars, Mithradaric wars (these are also sequenced)
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one of those weird things you barely notice day to day that become clear only when you stumble across other conventions sort of like secret obligatory adjective order in english
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This must be similar to the process that led people to use words like maskirovka while keeping a completely serious face expression
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I can speculate reasonably well, Chinese history issue observed; after the revolution it has been actively written and made by the party. Numbering things makes then more goal-like. But that's neccessarily an incomplete explanation.
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My hunch is that it's a quirk of the language. Numbering something in Chinese is a quicker way to make it feel like a specific instance.. adding an adjective doesn't turn an indefinite noun to a definite one
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