• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    There’s no good way to predict what base they’d actually use for their numbers, but there’s definitely nothing about 10 that makes it an obvious choice for an inter-species standard line the comic implies.

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      3, 6 or 12 would be overwhelmingly likely though, inferring from all documented human language families