Re: Tiny Ini Update

In a message dated 2000/08/08 09:07:34 PM, nicole.eap@SNET.NET wrote:

>I've still
>never been able to find a satisfactory list of "basic" words so getting
>vocab has always taken me a while (doesn't it just make you mad when
>people say "well, i have this language that i've been working on for
>about two months and it has 10,000 words."  arghhh! </rant>).
    *gigglabyte*  I am havin' the same problem... Though workin' off Richard
Harrison's ULD (Universal Language Dictionary)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5383/uld2in.html,
I find myself addin' lotsa stuff from various forms of slang, onomatopoeia,
and technoculture to my ConLang pidgin Lingwa Frakas.
    And, YEAH! it makes me frustrated "when people say 'well, i have this
language that i've been working on for about two months and it has 10,000
words.' " My workin' _modus operandi_ is as slow and methodical as a
_karawak_ (the Lingwa Frakas word for "Sloth" based on a pidgin spellin' of
Kerouac)... ;)

>
>Anyway, I have a question about Ini's new feature.  What do you call a
>base nine system?  (You know, along the lines of binary & decimal)
    nonary

> And
>what do you call systems with other bases?  And, ObConlang, whose
>conlangs use number systems with weird bases?
    I vaguely recall several binary systems in ConLangs... too many to
recall...
And I think I have seen some sci-fi writer allude to a 11-base system...

    Z