Re: specialized numbers
| From: | nicole dobrowolski <fuzzybluemonkeys@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 20, 2001, 3:13 |
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--- Anton Sherwood froge sionk:
> Do any of you have two or more sets of numbers, used in different
> contexts? I have in mind the Japanese native series (hi hu mi yo)
> beside the Chinese imports (iti ni san si), and the Lincolnshire
> Celtic
> sheep-counting doggerel (yan tan tethera pethera pimp).
>
well i've been monkeying around with a system of quantifiers (i don't
know if that is that correct term... that's just what i call them)...
which are separate from the regular number system... they're used for
approximations... along the order of: 'more than ten', 'more than 80'
and if it were somewhere in between it would be 'more-than-ten toward
more-than-80'(for approximations over 45)... i'd give an example of
the toward thing but the only quantifier i have a word for right now
is 'more than 1000' which is 'pokatra' as in the common narethanaal
curse 'pokatra uthro debeth'...
...nicole
are you often a monkey?
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