What are your thoughts on Roman numerals?

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• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-08-20 02:48:43

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  They are good. I like number systems that aren't the typical Arabic numerals.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-08-20 02:50:49

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  good for numbering monarchs
• Klinotaxis

  2016-08-20 02:53:56

  kill living beings
  

  bullshit terrible
  
• Tatterhood

  2016-08-20 02:56:12

  I liked em a lot as a kid because I was better at them than my friends
  
• Tre

  2016-08-20 02:56:24

  
  

  Jane said:

  good for numbering monarchs

  
  I would know! 😜
• Crystal

  2016-08-20 02:56:34

  Munch munch, chomp chomp...

  They're pretty.
• SF_Sorrow

  2016-08-20 03:07:47

  
  

  also good for numbering centuries
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-20 03:31:49

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I always liked to see the copyright years given in Roman numerals on movies and such
  
  I was born in the year MCMXC
  
  They also look great on clocks
  
  Where do y'all stand on the IIII vs IV debate?
• Tachyon

  2016-08-20 03:37:34

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  IV, unless it's on a clockface (because symmetry and tradition)
  
• Tachyon

  2016-08-20 03:38:47

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  as for the numerals themselves, i like them, i like how they look
  
  place-value notation was a good idea though
  
• Imipolex G

  2016-08-20 04:08:40

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  usually they're terrible useless bullshit, except when numbering movie or game sequels.
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-08-20 04:10:07

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Central Avenue said:

  I always liked to see the copyright years given in Roman numerals on movies and such
  
  I was born in the year MCMXC
  
  They also look great on clocks
  
  Where do y'all stand on the IIII vs IV debate?

  IV because IIII is some bullshit that I do not traffick in.
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-20 04:15:46

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Big Ben--or, if you want to be pedantic, the clock in Elizabeth Tower that contains the bell known as Big Ben--uses IV, interestingly enough
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-08-20 04:18:36

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  apparently there is not a K in "traffick" and I feel like my life is a lie.
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-20 04:19:48

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I figured you were just being silly
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-08-20 04:20:50

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Well now that I think of it I don't know if I usually put a K there or not because I never fucking say "traffic" by itself. It's not a word that I use often.
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-20 04:22:10

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  As an aspiring civil engineer I say "traffic" a lot but rarely in the verb sense 😛
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-08-20 08:35:08

  Roman numerals I through VIII are in alphabetical order. Better than English only going up to two in cardinal numbers, or up to three in ordinal numbers.
• Toolsie

  2016-08-20 08:47:56 edited 2016-08-20 08:48:30

  ಠ_ಠ

  I like Roman numerals the same way I like the Greek alphabet: useless knowledge to have that rarely comes in handy.
  
  And my birth year was MCMXCIV
• Toolsie

  2016-08-20 08:49:39

  ಠ_ಠ

  Then again, I did do A Level Maths and Chemistry, so I did use the Greek alphabet a lot, and the clock in the living room uses Roman numerals and I was able to tell the time using that when I was five, so...
  
• Toolsie

  2016-08-20 08:49:52

  ಠ_ಠ

  Or should I say, when I was V.
• Tre

  2016-08-20 09:57:27

  
  

  Toolsie said:

  I like Roman numerals the same way I like the Greek alphabet: useless knowledge to have that rarely comes in handy.
  
  And my birth year was MCMXCIV

  Same.
  
  The sentiment part, anyway. My birth year is MCMXCVI.
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-08-20 10:38:19

  Toolsie said:

  I like Roman numerals the same way I like the Greek alphabet: useless knowledge to have that rarely comes in handy.
  
  And my birth year was MCMXCIV

  meanwhile my birth year is VIII years before that
  
• Tachyon

  2016-08-20 14:46:59

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Jane said:

  apparently there is not a K in "traffick" and I feel like my life is a lie.

  probs cuz there is a 'k' in the past tense 'trafficked' and the gerund form 'trafficking'
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-08-20 22:15:32

  list of english words where a c is hard despite being followed by e or i:
  
  ascii
  sceptic (also spelled skeptic)
  ...any others?
  
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-20 22:48:01

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I was gonna say I don't count "ASCII" as a word but I guess if "laser" is a word than it can be too
• MetaFour

  2016-08-20 22:53:07

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Uhhh... I've always mentally pronounced "ascetic" with a hard C, and I only just now looked it up and saw it's supposed to be soft.
• Imipolex G

  2016-08-20 22:57:09

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  ^HAW HAW
• Princess Alice

  2016-08-20 22:59:07

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I like how Android substitutes Droid Serif for Georgia so Meta Four's posts look different even on my phone
• Klinotaxis

  2016-08-20 23:04:19

  kill living beings
  

  MetaFour said:

  Uhhh... I've always mentally pronounced "ascetic" with a hard C, and I only just now looked it up and saw it's supposed to be soft.

  Shit
• Tatterhood

  2016-08-20 23:08:10

  glennmagusharvey said:

  list of english words where a c is hard despite being followed by e or i:
  
  ascii
  sceptic (also spelled skeptic)
  ...any others?
  

  "Celtic".
  
• MetaFour

  2016-08-20 23:31:15

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Tatterhood said:

  glennmagusharvey said:

  list of english words where a c is hard despite being followed by e or i:
  
  ascii
  sceptic (also spelled skeptic)
  ...any others?
  

  "Celtic".
  

  Unless you're talking about the basketball team, apparently.
• Tatterhood

  2016-08-20 23:48:10

  MetaFour said:

  Tatterhood said:

  glennmagusharvey said:

  list of english words where a c is hard despite being followed by e or i:
  
  ascii
  sceptic (also spelled skeptic)
  ...any others?
  

  "Celtic".
  

  Unless you're talking about the basketball team, apparently.

  Or the Scottish soccer team, yeah. I believe the soft pronunciation used to be the standard one and it changed around the time people started self-identifying as Celts again.