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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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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i've always liked "silk road", so evocative
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oooooh yeah I have a history of that I need to read
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I wonder how directly this dichotomy maps on to the (potentially) equivalent dichotomy between logographic languages in comparison with languages where the atomic token is derived from its sound.
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otoh: The X Years War
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The Heptarchy
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