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

En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

>
> 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.
>
Well, I just copied what I have in my book, don't blame it on me :)) . On the
book, it's ling with raising tone. Is it tone 2?

> 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?
>
Nothing yet, but I have the strange impression that this will end up in one of
my conlangs :))) .

Christophe.

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