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Re: numbers as letters

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 13:31
On 5/8/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a system for reading digits (0-9) as letters (probably > consonants only, with arbitrary vowels added for pronounceability)?
You could go with the Lojban system - "no pa re ci vo mu xa ze bi so" for 0-9 (note |ci| = /Si/, otherwise you can use IPA values for the letters); each digit has a unique consonant, and you can take the usual vowel, ignore it, or substitute it with one of your choice. (The vowels follow an a-e-i-o-u progression for 1-5 and 6-9, incidentally.) FWIW, Lojban uses digit names exclusively, even in numbers larger than 9; for example, "123" is read "pareci", with no morpheme for "hundred" or "ten" used. (Part of the audiovisual isomorphism, I presume.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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