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

>From: Irina Rempt <irina@...>
>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:58:31 +0100
>
>On Monday 21 January 2002 03:30,  Adam Walker wrote:
>
> > From: Irina Rempt <irina@...>
>
> > >iranisin mochi so  sean"forty-hundred and nine" 4009
> > >hundreds fours and nine
> > >
> > >iranisin mochi sean "forty-nine hundred" 4900
> > >hundreds fours nine
>
> > So it all hangs on catching that little syllable "so".  Miss that
> > and you're off by 891!  Oh, languages can be cruel!  But Iliani
> > does the same as Chinese -- without modification the number 9 goes
> > in the next available slot and is understood as "900".
>
>It has the same *effect* as Chinese; it doesn't *do* the same as
>Chinese, because it's not that the number 9 goes in the next
>available slot, but that it's understood as part of _mochi sean_
>"forty-nine" if there's no _so_ to separate it.
>
>    Irina
I see! said the blind man to the deaf boy.  Cool!

Adam

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