Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems from conlangs)

> > I also had no idea that German had the same idiom for it that Danish does.
>
>Danish, German . . . it's all Dutch, right? ;)
Actually, depending on the text, sometimes I can make out the general
meaning of written Dutch -- and then, sometimes not.

  the 12-hour clock is just
>one of several timekeeping idiosyncracies that I'd just as soon do
>without, including daylight savings time and time zones in general.
Oh, don't get me started on Daylight Savings Time.  Now that I have two
children who don't go to bed easily while it is still very light outside, I
could wish that I was living in Indiana again.  (Indiana doesn't use
Daylight Savings Time.)  On the bright side, this summer I read _The
Hobbit_, _Lord of the Rings_, and _The Silmarillion_ aloud to my children
while we waited for it to get dark.  I didn't want them outside anytime
near dusk because of the West Nile Virus, so we ended up reading until
after 9pm on nights within a month of the solstice.  It's a little better
now that it's getting dark earlier.

Isidora

Reply