Re: USAGE: Well, at least he created numbers.....

From: "Adam Walker"

> However, this brings me to a question I've been meaning to ask for several
> months now.  What does the prhase "four thousand nine" mean in your
> conlangs?  In English it would mean 4009, but in Chinese it means 4900.
> What do you do with this?
Conversationally, I believe it runs similar to English:

4 sebut 1000  pér
9  ngareth

sebutpér ngareth (4009)

4  sebut 1000 pér
9  ngareth 100  kashad

sebutpér ngrarethkashad (4900)

but for when reading formally, every power of ten must be marked by
*some*thing:

4 sebut 1000 pér
0 kashad
0 mnö
9 ngareth

sebutpér ngaukashad ngaumnö ngareth

as opposed to the same form:

4  sebut 1000 pér
9  ngareth 100  kashad

sebutpér ngrarethkashad (4900)

So, conversationally, it looks English-y; formally written, it gets
Chinese-y (though what about English "aught"?).

Kou