Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:50:02PM -0700, JS Bangs wrote:
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> This is much, much more satisfying and pleases me greatly.  Full marks.
Heh, thanks. ;-)

> It reminds of how terms like "minion" and "score" are used in our
> language, and how we count -illions by intervals of 3 powers of ten.
I always found the -illions series rather arbitrary. Why divisions of 3
rather than 4 (like Chinese) or something else. But nevertheless, it's a
good convention, so I won't whine about it. :-)

> I'm curious--do you have a completish description of Ebisedi culture up
> anywhere on the web?  I feel like I should learn more about it before I
> judge it.
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Unfortunately, 99.9% of Ebisedi culture is not written down anywhere. Bits
and pieces of it can be found in the Ebisedian reference grammar, and
little tidbits in the lexicon, but that is all. To be honest, I haven't
actually sat down and worked out Ebisedi culture in much detail at all.
What I have is just several broad principles, and a lot of history and
story fragments (mostly unwritten) that illustrate different aspects of
the Ebisedi.

I really should sit down and work out some of this stuff, but I rather
work on the language first, so that I can actually write the culture in
its native tongue. :-P


T

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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've
forgotten this before.

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