Re: A question regarding dictionary entries
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 2, 2007, 9:04 |
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On 1.8.2007 Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
> I would certainly explain in the longer definition that this was 40
> base 8 (or octal) which is 32 base 10, but for the one word gloss, I'm
> thinking 32 would be clearer to my mostly English-speaking readers.
Being etymologically inclined I feel pressed to point
out that the "-ty" suffix in the English words for
multiples of ten is cognate with _ten_. Perhaps you
can coin a new 'English' suffix _-oct_, so _fouroct_?
/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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