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Re: Tentative Ebisedian number system

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, July 5, 2002, 4:24
In a message dated 07/04/2002 11.54.56 AM, intrepid linguavore John Cowan
writes:

>[ . . . ] English has words like duo/pair, trio, quartet, quintet for the
first few >members of this series, although vigintiseptet is probably too far out. <SNiP> Eh? Vigintiseptet "looks" pretty intriguingly erudite & linguistically "tasty" to me *giggloctet* but I think vigesiseptet is lil more "transparent" ::vividly imagines a vigintiseptet/vigesiseptet playing dark, complex chamber music [in Mercator tuning/53 notes to the octave] in a suitably Gothic Gormenghastic setting::
>ObRant: I blenched yesterday to read of three women as a "triumvirate"!
ROTFLMAO mayhaps they were transgendered or "drag kings" ;) Hanuman Zhang {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n dZahN/ ~§~ Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione. "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation." "The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random." ~ Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE " jinsei to iu mono wa, kinchou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou " <Japanese> = lit. "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious artform"