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Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long]

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 14:17
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:32:17PM +1100, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> Hectares and decibels are so rarely if ever used without those prefixes > that I mostly forget they *are* normal metric prefixes+measurement, > seeming more like tons* than kilograms (and in fact, decibel is often > pronounced as one inseperable word, /des@b@l/).
That's the usual pronunciation here as well, but I don't think it's relevant; "kilometer" gets the same treatment (/k@'lO.m@.tr=/), even though we hear "meter" all the time. -Marcos

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