Re: Types of numerals

--- 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