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

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, 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?
Personally, I'd interperate 'four thousand nine' to mean four thousand,
nine hundred and something---I would only expect to here it if the speaker
was cut off. I'd say 'four thousand and nine' to mean 4009.

In Finnstek, my only conlang with numbers so far, 'four thousand nine'
would mean '4009', though, as they just use suffixes to note the amount of
the number. (Of course, Finnstek is base five, but that's irrelevant to
the question...)

Tristan

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