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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The European tally line diagonal from top left to bottom right feels wrong.

I usually see it the other way.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, the example in OP seems wrong (for right handed people), it's very awkward line to pull

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not in my experience. Diagonal down is easy to pull

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[–] shaman1093@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

This is the way

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've always felt the same about the "no" sign:

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Looks to me as if all the ghosts have been busted.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 59 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago
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[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Since when is Brazil not part of South America?

[–] moroni@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

We’re special. 😂 I guess because we are a lot similar to other South American countries, but also very different. For instance, we don’t even speak Spanish.

[–] rauls4@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Every time this gets posted it gets debunked.

[–] NemoWuMing@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Oh? I can confirm it's true for North America and China, at least.

Is it the middle one that gets debunked?

[–] hswolf@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Brazilian here, some of us do use the middle one

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I dig that one. I'm going to start using it over the N American set

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Personally I've never seen the middle one but that just my personal experience ofc. What I do myself is the left one with a horizontal line

Edit: forgot to mention I'm from Brazil too

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

where are you from brasil?

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[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 17 points 3 months ago

Right one is 100% used in Japan. Particularly at bars and such for keeping track of how many of that drink the person/table has ordered.

[–] Akisamb@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

French here we use both the middle and the left. It depends on the group of friends.

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[–] jobby@lemmy.today 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The Asian one makes no sense.

[–] xanu@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (19 children)

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the final one is the symbol for "five" and it takes 5 strokes to draw. it'd be like drawing a 5 one segment at a time in an eight segment number display as the tally marks.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You are wrong. This is the character for "correct". "Five" is similar. Both have five strokes.

五 = five

正 = correct, positive

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Five” 五 has four strokes

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Oh, you are right. It's been a couple of decades since I actually had to write Japanese by hand.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So then why aren't they using '五' to make the tally marks?

Trends are weird.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Because it actually has four strokes. The "L" in the middle is one stroke

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[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago

It's the character for 'correct', which doesn't really explain much. Best I can figure it's just that it's a common character with five strokes in a satisfying right-down-right-down-right order.

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[–] Vytle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thought this was Loss for a second

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

I downvoted instinctively.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do the middle one but start with 4 dots, then connect those dots with lines, then do 2 lines crossing in the middle. it gives you 10 in a small space. So in the pictures there it would be 3, 5, 7, 8, 9.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

That sounds really efficient.

[–] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just feel like the figure on the right should have each unit be the same length. Why should four be denoted with a shorter length?

[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

True. I was going to give benefit of the doubt and assume that the creator was counting half of one of the segments, of which it overlaps, as part of that unit. Someone mentioned that the diagram is not actually the correct representation of the number five, anyway. Someone in this comment section said that it means, “correct”. They stated that an entirely different figure (not displayed in this post) actually represents 5.

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

In france I lften see both the middle and left ones.

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