Re: New Idea? Was(YAC: a couple of questions)

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 09:44:41PM -0500, Patrick Jarrett wrote:
> Thanks a lot, that clears a lot up.
>
> I was pondering for my language and had an interesting idea... All
> the languages which I know use Singular and Plural. What if we used
> another number, zero. Zero you ask? Right, like none.
Hey! My conlang has that! :-)

>
> I have no pencils.
> no pencils would be the zero number.
Exactly.

>
> So this would give me another set of endings for the zero number.
>
> A) Has this been done before?
Yes, I did it in my conlang :-)

> B) CAN ANYONE THINK OF A BETTER NAME??? ;]
Nullar. At least, that's what I decided to call it in my conlang. After
asking everyone here about it, of course :-P The name actually wasn't my
idea -- my original term for it was also "zero" but it sounded awkward.
"Nullar" sounds good. :-)


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