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[bigpeteb]

One of the interesting things about Chinese-derived languages that fascinates me is the preponderance of ordered sets. For instance, novels in a series are labeled up and down, or if there are three, up, middle, and down. (I assume that in modern literature, where longer series are common, they simply number them

Comments

[scottique]

That makes those fucking Mah Johng tiles, and every other Japanese-tile-game that Nintendo puts out, make much more sense. Thanks.

[falun]

personally I order thing in terms of cuteness.

for instance

puppy
kitty
dog
koala
flower-baby-pictures
cats-in-things

you can modifiy this with lazy to increase the cute-factor and minor to decrease the cute factor. This allows me to cute-rank things from 1-18 (or 1-20 if I include "most high" and "sub" modifiers