En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> I'm inedible. Muahahaha ...
I wouldn't be too sure of it if I were you. They can always make a soup out of
you (and they bol you alive then, they say it's better for the taste :)) ).
and I'm evil too - the early versions of
> Cyran
> orthography are at least as bad as Maggel. /s/ could be written in
> several
> ways; "s", "ss", "sz", "z", "zz", "zh" and "zhz". "Y" was
> impredictably
> either /i/ or /j/, "h" could mean /h/, /e/ or be silent.
Pff... child's play :)) .
Both vowels
> and
> consonants could be doubled without any change of pronunciation, and
> /e/,
> one of the commonest phonemes could be unwritten. There's absolutely no
> way
> of telling that "Mzn" is /mesene/, rather than, say /emzen/ or /m=zn=/,
> and
> given the pronunciation, it could just as well be spelt "Mhzhznne".
>
Child's play...
>
> What makes you think I'm going to allow 'em to continue to count in base
> 20?
The fact that if you don't you soon won't be able to talk anymore, because
there won't be a connection between your lungs and your mouth anymore? ;))))
> I'm going to make them count in base 10 000.
>
No stinking multiple of ten base thank you! Be happy that they have special
words for "million" and "billion" :)) (which by the way are pure nouns and thus
out of the numeric system in fact).
Christophe.
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