Re: number bases (was without subject)
| From: | David Zitzelsberger <davidz@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 21:03 |
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English has (had - most people I meet don't know what it means) score, which
is also twenty.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address say "four score and " which is 80 +.
Supposedly this comes from old norse for mark or tally?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Francois Colson [mailto:fa597525@SKYNET.BE]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:59 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: number bases (was without subject)
French is somewhat pre-disposed to a base 20: 85 is said quatre-vingt-cinq
/katr@vE~sE~k/, i.e. four-twenty-five.