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

Adam Walker wrote:
>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?
In Tech you say "nine and ten four-hundreds", since less significant digits
are named first (right-to-left writing with numbers written like their
Western counterparts), and the language is base-20.

Don't know how that works out with a fundamentally Afro-Asiatic and Semitic
artlang though, since the ones I'm aware of are base-10.

~Danny~


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