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| Mar 30, 2023 at 14:45 | comment | added | Lambie | [better: couldn't care less, :)] | |
| Mar 30, 2023 at 10:48 | history | edited | virolino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2023 at 10:45 | comment | added | virolino | @JanusBahsJacquet: I agree, you are mostly right. I only wanted to underline that endianness can only partially be applied to some parts of some languages. For the rest, For other aspects, endianness is so mixed it is not worth bringing it into discussion much. Some things just have to be accepted. In many paces, the address on an envelope is written as street, number, city, Country - with the zip code there somewhere in between. So again, mixed endianness. | |
| Mar 30, 2023 at 10:10 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | It’s true of course that endianness is not a natural concept – but then neither is human language to begin with. There are tendencies for some languages to be either big- or little-endian in how they view the world. Chinese and Japanese are the most unambiguous I can think of, being extremely big-endian in every way. The opposite seems rarer – Welsh is potentially an example (but only when using the traditional counting system). Most fall somewhere in between. I don’t think that invalidates endianness as a linguistic notion – it just means that it’s only relevant to some languages. | |
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| S Mar 30, 2023 at 8:17 | history | answered | virolino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |