Re: USAGE: Well, at least he created numbers.....
| From: | Elliott Belser <renyard@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 21, 2002, 0:25 |
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>On Sunday 20 January 2002 17:31, you wrote:
>> 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?
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>> For starters, Tairezazh doesn't have a word for "thousand" - it's
>> expressed as _thelksád_ "ten hundred". If we instead take "four
> > hundred nine", it'd translate as _saksád-trav_ and mean 409.
It gets better and better. Ng'and'ana has numbers that have
different suffixes for each place... base nine. Desh is 'three.'
Desh'trie is 'three nines.' Desh'cend is 'three eighty-ones,' and so
forth. Desh'cend desh is 303 in base nine, or 246 in decimal.
Oh, and sho'ben'a taal. I'm Elliott Belser, and this is my pet
language, Ng'and'ana. Wave to the other nice conlangs, dear! (Arf!
Arf!) Seriously, I'd like to make this a workable language for a
science fiction movie I'm writing. Thanks for having me.
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