It's not just different occupations that use different counting systems. Apparently in Japanese you count liquid using one set of names, grain another, and countable things with a third, people with yet another. Or something like that.
In English we do something similar. Small units of people are 'single', 'a couple', 'menage a trois' etc. Not to mention the myriad names for groups of things (herd, flock etc).
It's not just different occupations that use different counting systems. Apparently in Japanese you count liquid using one set of names, grain another, and countable things with a third, people with yet another. Or something like that.
In English we do something similar. Small units of people are 'single', 'a couple', 'menage a trois' etc. Not to mention the myriad names for groups of things (herd, flock etc).