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

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Monday, January 21, 2002, 12:52
My numbers... Well, I don't really have words like
"thousand" or "million".  As I'm trying to work it
out, I would have "four thousand nine" (English)
translated into Kayasanoda as "four space zero zero
nine".  This is not as cumbersome as it seems--I
assume that I won't be using exact numbers past the
millions.  I'm trying to work out a system resembling
scientific notation for very high numbers.

For decimals, 1.823 would be like English: "one point
eight two three".

And fractions-- 1/2 -- are expressed as "one over
two".

Hope that stretched your imagination a little.
Clint


--- Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> wrote:
> >From: Christophe Grandsire > <christophe.grandsire@...> > >Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:51:11 +0100 > > > >Speaking of Chinese numerals, did anyone work out a > system that, like in > >Mandarin, mark missing orders? I mean, in Chinese, > 409 is (sorry, I don't > >know > >the tone numbers, so this one will be toneless, but > I suppose everyone with > >a > >little knowledge of Chinese can work them out): > si-bai-ling-jiu: > >4-100-empty-9. > >I find such an idea quite cool :))) . > > > > Well, ling2 doesn't mean empty. I *can* mean "rain" > or "to fall like > leaves", but not empty. However, in Taiwanese > khong3 is the same character > as empty. > > 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? > > >Still have to work out Itakian numerals... I have > the strange intuition > >that > >they are gonna be verbs :))) . > > > >Christophe. > > Seems like Lrahran numbers were verbs. Lrahran only > had verbs and nouns > plus a few conjunctions. > > Adam > >
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