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<blockquote data-quote="Kodiak" data-source="post: 172274" data-attributes="member: 15426">To the red-hat Lady in Capitan, NM,The difference between &quot;I love&quot; and &quot;I love more&quot; is as good a scale can be. And,possibly, all my heart can do… remember? I said primitive!A very interesting documentation on BBC thought me the Australian aborigines did nothave numbers! What I just said is false… they have a number: one. This was their wayto make a distinction between nothing and something, and that was the end of theirmathematical world!A young man came in the camera field and said: &quot;This is my grand father. I can tell youthat he had 4 daughters and that one of them was my mother, so I had three aunts. - Grand father, how many children did you have?* Many.- But how many?* One is NAME, an other is NAME, there is your mother NAME and the last is NAME, Many…The old man living in the outbacks and surviving since… can count from one to many!To me, this is the poetry of mankind.Dear red-hat Lady in Capitan, NM, If I ever say: &quot;I like you many&quot; that would sound strange.But if I say: &quot;I like 3/5, or even more 5/5!&quot; this would make me feel plain ridiculous!I hope my feelings make sense.A good evening to the the red-hat Lady in Capitan, NM</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kodiak, post: 172274, member: 15426"] To the red-hat Lady in Capitan, NM, The difference between "I love" and "I love more" is as good a scale can be. And, possibly, all my heart can do… remember? I said primitive! A very interesting documentation on BBC thought me the Australian aborigines did not have numbers! What I just said is false… they have a number: one. This was their way to make a distinction between nothing and something, and that was the end of their mathematical world! A young man came in the camera field and said: "This is my grand father. I can tell you that he had 4 daughters and that one of them was my mother, so I had three aunts. - Grand father, how many children did you have? * Many. - But how many? * One is NAME, an other is NAME, there is your mother NAME and the last is NAME, Many… The old man living in the outbacks and surviving since… can count from one to many! To me, this is the poetry of mankind. Dear red-hat Lady in Capitan, NM, If I ever say: "I like you many" that would sound strange. But if I say: "I like 3/5, or even more 5/5!" this would make me feel plain ridiculous! I hope my feelings make sense. A good evening to the the red-hat Lady in Capitan, NM [/QUOTE]

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