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

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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