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Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to talk about what we don’t, and can’t, know.
The AI CFO
marcelo.rinesi
For example, let's take the simple question: "How old are you?" First, there's a single sign for "question." So for a question about someone's age, you'd use the motion for question with the motion for "winter". How many winters are you? That's what I ask. In PISL you measure months by moons, days by the sun. And to refer to different times of day, you would show hand placement according to the position of the sun in the sky. So this sign for morning, afternoon, or night.
Being a locally minded vegetarian has been my compromise. I'm sure that to many this is intellectually incoherent, to which I'd offer that it's not a purely intellectual choice.
No Meat Required
Alicia Kennedy
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