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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAmerica No Rule
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    1 month ago

    I mean, Google Ngrams is written language so slower than the spoken one. The point is more that Spanish < Italian.

    But if your mom or who ever telling you this is a greater authority than a company analyzing data with no agenda in this case, than that’s ok too. But maybe I’m misreading the graphs. The Italian one has kind of a peak in 1921 but a bigger one in 1814. It only goes above those random peaks around 2000 in Italian and Spanish looks less random to me before that.





  • That’s more or less how it worked in premodern times. You didn’t start at midnight but devided the day into 12 hours, starting with the first hour at sun rise and the 12th at sun set. For (ancient) Rome, their hours were like 45min to 1:15h which isn’t too much a difference when you think about it. Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.