Re: weights and measure

On Sun, 20 May 2007 21:35:17 -0500, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
wrote:

>On May 20, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Reilly Schlaier wrote:
>
>> ti sténnir og &#509;n half sténnir og féra hóndræðs femmté
>> sj&#511;fn og skor singilir.
>> and if the unicode doesnt work (which i suspect it might not)
>> ti stennir og aen half stennir og fera hondraedhs femmte sjoefn og
>> skor
>> singilir.
>> ten stones and one half stone and four hondreds fifty seven and
>> twenty pebbles.
>
>Looks cool. Are you sure you use <stennir> after both <ti> and <œn
>half>? I'd think the first would use the plural and the latter would
>use the singular.
>
>Also, I find it interesting that you say 57+20. In the languages I
>know of that use multiples of 20, you'd instead have 60+17.

well youre right that it ought to be st&#509;nn (staenn) but i have an excuse
actually no i dont i just goofed
and vityng tries to have as few "skor" as possible