Re: Negative ordinality (was: Please welcome . . .)

On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 05:06 AM, Roger Mills wrote:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:41:39PM +0000, Ray Brown wrote:
>>> I know - but then so, alas, is 'thirty-twoth' for my old fashioned
> 'thirty-
>>> second'.
> From Ray's msg I got the impression he's actually heard people say that,
> and
> they weren't being funny-- it was an honest-to-goodness uage of theirs.
True - and it's significant that it's 'thirty-twoth' and not *thirty-oneth
or
*thirty-threeth.  I've heard 'thirty-twoth' only from computing nerds who
also say 'leafs' and 'mouses'    :)

> Nothing but tradition (and learning!) prevents us from analogizing
Quite :)


> ObConlang:  In Kash, the decades are compounds of unit+ten (-fola); the
> /f/
>> /p/ if the unit form ends in a consonant, and all except two and four do.
> So they all have -pola except  rofola 20 and hafola 40.  I made so many
> mistakes writing ropola and hapola, that I decided the language was
> undergoing an analogical change. Though of course, purists frown on
> ropola/hapola.
Great - back to conlanging again.  It's sad that a comment on Gladitian
sparks of boring YAEDT.

Well, this is positively my last mail on any YAEDT 'negative ordinality'
- I might make an odd posting if its conlang related   :)

Ray
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