Re: CHAT: (no subject)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 12, 2004, 2:05 |
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Marty Rosenberg wrote:
(A belated welcome)
MR This is probably due to the fact that all logic works against any number
system but our own for most practical uses. If I'm not mistaken, no other base
can have any form of working decimal system.)
RM Decimocentric!!! My Gwr people will tell you that Base-8 works just fine
(though I personally have trouble with the math). But 1/4 is 0.20, 1/2 is 0.40
etc. I suppose 77/100 (i.e 63/64) converts to a meaningful base-10 figure, but
I haven't tried it.... Among my favorites, 3-squared = 11, and 5-squared = 31.
Primes and Fibonacci numbers also look strange to our eyes.
MR Also, I appreciate the X-SAMPA chart..... So if anybody could give me some
of the basic sounds, I would be very appreciative.
RM There's also a UCLA site, which I'll have to look up its URL at another
time. And a Norwegian site, frustratingly slightly
different-sounding...Actually I think both are included in the conlanglinks.tk
site (but that URL has recently changed too, I'm behind in the archive........)
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