It originated in the Nashville studios with the studio musicians who mostly could not read music, but didnāt need to. No one wants to read Roman numerals. Weāre American. We read Arabic.
There is much more to the NNS than writing the numbers. Within the system is communication for stops, diamonds, walks, inversions, etc. You can do that with Roman numerals, but your paper ends up looking like a chicken walked through wet ink.
I just use RN because they are easier for me to typeā¦
This is the best thing Iāll read all day. 
Arabic ARABIC ? For goodness sake donāt tell Donald. He wants America to be GREAT AGAIN. Weird I always thought Americanās were GREAT.
Turns out, the Arabic number system is as follows: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 etc.
Oh, and Americans are great (well, some of us are anyway 
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America is in a sad, sad state of affairs. Read about the abortion laws that were just passed in NY. It actually made me a bit nauseous.
We have too many of our own political issues over here right now. I have no desire to head down that road Jack.
Me neither
Itās a painful one. Pray for us.
Just cause I care about you Jack, when you say you are nauseous, you are saying you nauseate others. Iām a grammar snob. I talk good see 
My other favs include āI could care lessā, orientated, irregardless, safety deposit box, and ending oneās sentences in prepositions like āwhere are you at?ā When called out on this one, the original speaker is then usually motivated to correct his statement or question such as āwhere are you at a%% h@&e?ā. My favorite though is Winston Churchillās rebuttal to this rule - āthat is something up with which I shall not putā.
I actually tried to explain why this is wrong once. I finally gave up. They wore me down to the point that I couldnāt care less.
I yam what I yam.
There are thing I could care less about and things that I couldnātā¦depends n the thingā¦
So, Iām guessing Jack became nauseated?
oh, thatās rightā¦OP is on numberageā¦
For the unborn, Iāll cry out where anybody will listen. 
You could always start a threadā¦
I have a question regarding NNS: how are chords like G7 represented or is the use of something like G7 just optional? Iām trying to write out the Nashville Number System for Amazing Grace from Benās TEF file and the first 8 measures are:
G G7 C G
D D7 G G7
Clearly, the sound will be different with the G7 and D7 than just the G and D so how are these handled in the NNS?
Awesome! Thanks fiddle_wood - that is a very handy chart!
Chris
Yep, superscript 7. If you draw a line through the 7 it makes it a major 7 chord (hardly ever used in bluegrass, if ever).