Jorge Llambías wrote:
The grammatical distinction in English (and the other languages I'm familiarErm, newer knew about "-1". Just to illustrate, how quirky natural languages can be, in Russian, we say "gradus" for +-1C, "gradusa" for +-2..4C, and "gradusov" for 0C and temperatures over 4C (or lower than -4).with) is not exactly between 1 and >1, but rather between 1 and non-1. We do use the plural for <1 too: "zero zebras", "0.5 kilograms", "minus one degrees", etc.
How weird... I have newer thought about this thing before. Anti-offtopic: .ue lo rusko bangu na se logji