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Re: Types of numerals

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 16:30
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, R A Brown <ray@C...> wrote:

>When I was a youngster, a "couple" invariably meant 'two, a group of >two'. But in contemporary usage it now more often means 'a few' - >seems to me a needless loss of precision.
Agreed. Americans I talk to want to make "few" equal three. I'm insisting that couple = 2, but resisting few = 3! I'm trying to find the names of the various categories of numbers: ordinal, cardinal, multiplicative, distributive, etc., but I can't find the right combination of words to google effectively. Can anyone help me? Charlie http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur