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Interesting Language Fact of the Day
In Japanese, there are two versions of the numbers 4 and 9. 4 can be "yon" or "shi". 9 can be "kyuu" or "ku". "Shi" also happens to mean death, and "ku" means suffering. For this reason, 4 and 9 are considered unlucky numbers, and sometimes apartment buildings and such will avoid having rooms numbered 4 and 9.
Interesting Language Fact of the Day
In Japanese, ka is like a verbal question mark, which you can add to statements to make them into yes or no questions. For example: そうですか Sōdesu ka = Is that so? そうです Sōdesu = That is so.
Interesting Language Fact of the Day
The word “paragraph” comes from two Greek words. “Para” in this case means “beside” and “graphe” means “writing.” This is because paragraphs used to be divided by a mark in the margin, so this mark was “beside the writing.”
Interesting Language Fact of the Day
In the same way that you conjugate a verb, you decline a noun.
Greek Textbook: decline this noun.
Me 1: would you like a noun?
Me 2: no, thanks.
Interesting Language Fact of the day
(Just in case you find this sort of thing interesting.) Etc. stands for et cetera, which in Latin literally means “and the rest”. Et = and. Cetera = the rest.