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Re: weights and measure

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Monday, May 21, 2007, 2:35
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.