Re: Numbers ancient & modern (was: Unilang report)

En réponse à Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:

>
> Quite right.
>
> Inscriptions on tombstones show forms like IIXX = eighteen; IXXX = 29,
> reflecting what was actually said.
>
> That's too messy for us moderns, so we've come with things like IV and
> IX,
> which the Romans wrote as IIII and VIIII and extended that system.
>
Well, I prefer the system as it was done by the Romans :) . From now on I will
use it (after all, I even pronounce latin setphrases with the Reconstructed
Latin Pronunciation I was taught at school :) ).

Christophe.

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