Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

On Friday, Mar 07, Seven deety-three CE at eleven twenty-ee deeteen, Mar 07,
H.S. Teoh wrote:

 > [*] Nevertheless, sometimes I take perverse pleasure in reading hex
 > numbers like 4B as "forty-B" and E5 as "Ety-five". :-P This is only when I
 > feel like deliberately speaking in riddles, though. Nothing like saying
 > "there are B-hundred twenty-F pixels in that window" and getting all those
 > blank stares. :-)



Exactly. I started thinking like this when I was a kid learning
6502/6510 asm on a Commodore 64: I recall there was a big block of
memory at C-thousand (49152). I still think of (and call), say 0xD3F7
as "dee thousand three hundred and effty-seven". Much more interesting
sounding than boring old "fifty-four thousand two hundred and sixty
three".

Still, as Tristan noted, the decimal place words (-teen, hundred,
thousand) are rather incongruous. Forms like "deeteen" (see the very
first line of this message) are very odd.


s.

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