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

Hi!

Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> writes:
> 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?
In Tyl-Sjok, it would be a bit strange, but could be interpreted as
`four 9000'.  Probably there are sentences were this makes sense.

   xjun hen il kjox hang

(1000 is composed: hen il kjox)

But as a single number, it would be garbage, because you need
conjunctions when telling a number like that.  Further, the exponent
is always in front of the mantissa.

1000  = hen il kjox  (`3 powers 10' == 10 to the 3rd power)
4     = xjun
9     = hang
and   = wng

4009  = hen il    kjox xjun wng hang
        3   power 10   4    and 9

4900  = hen il kjox xjun wng kul il kjox hang

This looks more like the English system, right?

There are also alternative forms where only the first exponent is
mentioned, then the ciphers are listed:

4900  = hen il kjox xjun hang
            1000    4    9

4009  = hen il kjox xjun tjen tjen hang
            1000    4    0    0    9

This looks more like Chinese then.

**Henrik