The European tally line diagonal from top left to bottom right feels wrong.
I usually see it the other way. 
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Yep, the example in OP seems wrong (for right handed people), it's very awkward line to pull
Not in my experience. Diagonal down is easy to pull
Maybe it depends on a person or the language they typically write in - and I have to admit I rarely write with pen and paper these days
This is the way
I've always felt the same about the "no" sign:
Looks to me as if all the ghosts have been busted.
Since when is Brazil not part of South America?
We’re special. 😂 I guess because we are a lot similar to other South American countries, but also very different. For instance, we don’t even speak Spanish.
The Asian one makes no sense.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the final one is the symbol for "five" and it takes 5 strokes to draw. it'd be like drawing a 5 one segment at a time in an eight segment number display as the tally marks.
You are wrong. This is the character for "correct". "Five" is similar. Both have five strokes.
五 = five
正 = correct, positive
“Five” 五 has four strokes
Oh, you are right. It's been a couple of decades since I actually had to write Japanese by hand.
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It's the character for 'correct', which doesn't really explain much. Best I can figure it's just that it's a common character with five strokes in a satisfying right-down-right-down-right order.
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Every time this gets posted it gets debunked.
Oh? I can confirm it's true for North America and China, at least.
Is it the middle one that gets debunked?
Brazilian here, some of us do use the middle one
The debunk got debunked
Dedebunked or just bunked
Rebunked?
I dig that one. I'm going to start using it over the N American set
Personally I've never seen the middle one but that just my personal experience ofc. What I do myself is the left one with a horizontal line
Edit: forgot to mention I'm from Brazil too
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Honestly, it's the best one. The left system sometimes has users miscounting strikes, with the squares it's a square or it isn't.
The right one...
Come on now, guys.
Right one is 100% used in Japan. Particularly at bars and such for keeping track of how many of that drink the person/table has ordered.
French here we use both the middle and the left. It depends on the group of friends.
Debunked how? The middle one is the only one I haven't encountered in the wild.
I do a modified version of the middle one, common for people like naturalists apparently, which does four dots to form the vertices of a grid, 1-4, four lines to successively complete a square, 5-8, two lines forming an x in the middle of the square, 9-10.
I do the middle one but start with 4 dots, then connect those dots with lines, then do 2 lines crossing in the middle. it gives you 10 in a small space. So in the pictures there it would be 3, 5, 7, 8, 9.
That sounds really efficient.
Thought this was Loss for a second
I downvoted instinctively.
I just feel like the figure on the right should have each unit be the same length. Why should four be denoted with a shorter length?
In france I lften see both the middle and left ones.
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