Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems from conlangs)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 15, 2003, 20:16 |
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:13:39PM -0400, I wrote:
> do. Perhaps *<seice> was considered too close to <seis>,
> although that doesn't make much sense to me - ['sejTe] vs. [sejs]
> seems like a pretty clear distinction.
And at any rate it is exactly the same as the distinction between
<dos> and <doce>, so that's obviously not it. Perhaps the actual
conflict with *<seice> was <siete>. That makes a bit more sense.
-Mark