Oh fun fact about the Japanese language, counting is difficult to pick up
Like to start with there are two different sets of numeral words, one Sinitic and one from Japanese/Korean roots
But past that each class of thing to be counted has its own counting word that you have to learn and use separately
Like you don’t say “I want two newspapers”, you say “I want newspapers in the amount of two \u300csets of bound papers\u300d”
It is incredibly tedious, learning all this shit. And it’s ambiguous as hell! The professor that ran my Japanese lectures, his research involved going to a McDonalds in Japan, posting up against the back wall, and tracking how many people ordered hamburgers in terms of \u300cgeneral things\u300d, \u300cmeal courses\u300d, \u300cflat objects\u300d, \u300csmall circular objects\u300d, etc.
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