Re: Numbers from 1-10
| From: | Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 28, 2003, 15:20 |
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What happens if your language doesn't stretch to 10 by design? I don't
have a language like that, but people always mention (I'm not sure if
its a myth or not) some languages, especially aborigonal ones, which
supposedly don't have words for higher numbers.... I wonder if it really
is true, or another peice of information along the likes of "Eskimos
have lots of words for snow" which derives from the fact that the
language is poly-synthetic, so there are lots of words, but not lots of
roots that mean snow.
>>Someone sent me an email (J Gorenc I think it was) concerning
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>numbers 1-10. Perhaps 1-12 might be more suitible since
>duodecimal counting is much more efficient. I assume it was from
>this site or the Auxlang site.<
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>I got the same e-mail, from Janko Gorenc. I looked him up and
>apparently he has a habit of e-mailing people asking for the
>numbers 1-10 in their conlangs. He seems to collect them.
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>Also, two of my languages have a base-16 number system, so 1-10
>wouldn't be of much help.
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>- Erin Notagain <-- loves hexadecimal
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