Re: CHAT: Measurements (was: Re: CHAT: browsers)

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 7:56 pm, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
> > Time for the next instalment of the aperiodic Conlang Conspiracy (tm).
> > We're
> > all going to consistently use "myriad" for 10,000 till it becomes
> > accepted
> > usage!
>
> Oops! In Maggel |muorhiadf| ['mIr\_j&d] (X-SAMPA with the usual Conlang
> modifications) which *is* borrowed from "myriad" means "million" (and it
> has
>
> |bmuorhiadf| ['bIr\_j&d] for "billion" - Continental European meaning: "one
>
> million million"). Really want to add even more Maggelity? ;)))
>
Can we have a |hdormuorhiadf| [trIr\_j&d] and |hgouaidormuorhiadf|
[k_wadrIr\j&d] too?  I know I don't know anything about Maggel Orthography,
but it looks vaguely logical to me...

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